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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 boxhaul
 (vt.)使船順風勢轉向

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Box·haul v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boxhauled ] Naut. To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).
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