About The Word Haul
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Haul Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Haul?
[n] the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"
[n] the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish" [v] transport something in a cart [v] transport, as in a truck [v] draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" Synonyms | Synonyms for Haul: cart | catch | drag | draw | hale | haulage Related Terms | Find terms related to Haul: attraction | bag | barge | blackmail | board | boat | boodle | boom | boost | booty | bring to | burden | bus | capture | cargo | carry | cart | cast loose | catch | clap on ratlines | clear hawse | coach | convey | cut loose | draft | drag | draggle | draw | dray | elevate | ferry | float | freight | graft | hale | harvest | haul down | haul off | haul the wind | haul to | haul up | head to windward | heave | heave apeak | heave round | heave short | heave to | hoist | hot goods | kedge | lading | lay | lay aloft | lift | lighter | load | log | loot | lug | move | overexert | overexertion | overextend | overextension | overstrain | overstress | overtax | overtaxing | payload | perks | perquisite | pickings | plunder | pork barrel | press | prize | public till | public trough | pull | rack | raft | raise | ratline down | remove | sail to windward | seizure | shift | ship | sled | sledge | snake | spar down | spoil | spoils | spoils of office | squeeze | stealings | stolen goods | strain | strain every nerve | straining | stream the log | stress | stress and strain | stressfulness | stretch | swag | sweat blood | take | take in tow | tax | taxing | tense | tension | till | tow | trail | train | transport | traverse a yard | trawl | troll | truck | tug | unlash | uphelm | van | wagon | warp | weather | wheelbarrow | yield See Also | bouse | bowse | carry | draw | force | indefinite quantity | piggyback | pull | pull | pulling | tow | towage | transport Haul In Webster's Dictionary \Haul\ (h[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hauled} (h[add]ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Hauling}.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of
German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire,
get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol[=o]n, hal[=o]n,
G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to
call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. {Hale}, v. t.,
{Claim}. {Class}, {Council}, {Ecclesiastic}.]
1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Some dance, some haul the rope. --Denham.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
--Pope.
Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry
robust. --Thomson.
2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to
haul logs to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began
hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
--U. S. Grant.
{To haul over the coals}. See under {Coal}.
{To haul the wind} (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship
nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
\Haul\, v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under {Haul}, v. t. I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. --Cook. 2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. {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. \Haul\, n. 1. A pulling with force; a violent pull. 2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul. 3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net. 4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul. 5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred. |
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