'To haul off' definitions:
Definition of 'To haul off'
From: GCIDE
- Haul \Haul\, v. i.
- 1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t. [1913 Webster]
- I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. --Cook. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. [1913 Webster]
- To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind.
- To haul off (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back. [1913 Webster]