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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Nautical, a small tackle for pulling down the tacks of the courses.
  • noun It is the purchase which is hooked into the hauling part of the tack, and by means of which the clue of the course is boused down toward the deck, and kept forward on the windward side when the ship is close-hauled.

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