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Haul   /hɔl/   Listen
noun
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.


verb
Haul  v. t.  (past & past part. hauled; pres. part. hauling)  
1.
To pull or draw with force; to drag. "Some dance, some haul the rope." "Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land." "Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust."
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."
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."
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.





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"Haul" Quotes from Famous Books



... have time we might perhaps go and over-haul them now. My house is but a short distance from the Domain, and my carriage is waiting at ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby
... looked at his mill, his great heart would swell with pride. Built on tidewater and at the mouth of a large slough in the waters of which he stored the logs his woods-crew cut and peeled for the bull- whackers to haul with ox-teams down a mile-long skid-road, vessels could come to Cardigan's mill dock to load and lie safely in twenty feet of water at low tide. Also this dock was sufficiently far up the bay to be sheltered from ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... an irregularity of the road, for which he was in no way to blame, he took an unintentional dive down a very steep bank, at the bottom of which was a dense forest of brambles. As he was quite unable to extricate himself, his companions, after a consultation, decided to haul him up by the legs; and it was to this manner of being rescued that he attributed most of the ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... ranchero paced the gallery for hours in great glee, watching the downpour. It was too soon yet by a week to gather the beeves. But under the glowing prospect, we could not remain inert. The next morning the segunao took all the teams and returned to the tank to watch the dam and haul rock to rip-rap the flanks of the embankment. Taking extra saddle horses with us, Uncle Lance, Dan Happersett, Quayle, and myself took the hounds and struck across for the Frio. On reaching the Vaux ranch, as showers were still falling and the underbrush reeking with moisture, wetting ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... to have him haul off and hit me with that fist of his!" laughed Uncle Jack. "How are you going ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey


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