Usually means: Turning ship sharply using wind.
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  1. boxhaul: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boxhaul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. boxhaul: Collins English Dictionary
  4. boxhaul: Wordnik
  5. boxhaul: Wiktionary
  6. boxhaul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. boxhaul: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Boxhaul, boxhaul: Dictionary.com
  9. Boxhaul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. boxhaul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Boxhaul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. boxhaul: Free Dictionary
  13. boxhaul: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (boxhaul)

verb:  (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To bring (a square-rigged ship) onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round.

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