haulback

[hawl-bak]

haul·back

[hawl-bak]
noun
(in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
Also called trip line.


Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase haul back
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Haulback is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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