Haul

[hɔːl] or [hɔl]

Definition

(verb.) transport in a vehicle; 'haul stones from the quarry in a truck'; 'haul vegetables to the market'.

(verb.) draw slowly or heavily; 'haul stones'; 'haul nets'.

Editor: Michel--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.

(v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

(v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.

(v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

(n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.

(n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

(n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

(n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

(n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

Typed by Leigh

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Drag, draw, pull, tug, tow, lug, trail, take in tow.

n. [1]. Pull, tug.[2]. Draught.

Edited by Alta

Definition

v.t. to drag: to pull with violence.—v.i. to tug to try to draw something: to alter a ship's course to sail generally.—n. a pulling: a draught as of fishes: a source of interest or profit.—ns. Haul′age act of hauling: charge for hauling or pulling a ship or boat; Haul′er Haul′ier.—Haul over the coals (see Coal); Haul off or round to turn a ship's course away from an object; Haul up to come or bring to rest after hauling.

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