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HAUL
draw, haul, haulage
(noun) the act of drawing or hauling something; “the haul up the hill went very slowly”
catch, haul
(noun) the quantity that was caught; “the catch was only 10 fish”
haul
(verb) transport in a vehicle; “haul stones from the quarry in a truck”; “haul vegetables to the market”
haul, hale, cart, drag
(verb) draw slowly or heavily; “haul stones”; “haul nets”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
haul (third-person singular simple present hauls, present participle hauling, simple past and past participle hauled)
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
(transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
(transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
(transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
(intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
Antonym: veer
(intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
Antonym: veer
(intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
Noun
haul (plural hauls)
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
(Internet) Short for haul video.
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
Synonyms
• (amount of illegal loot taken): See Thesaurus:booty
Anagrams
• hula
Source: Wiktionary
Haul, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.] Etym: [OE. halen, halien, F. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol, hal, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. 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.)
Definition: 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)
Definition: A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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