haul
verbEtymology
From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).
Definitions
To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- to haul logs to a sawmill
To draw or pull something heavy.
- Thither they bent, and haul'd their ſhip to land, / (The crooked keel divides the yellow ſand) / Ulyſſes ſleeping on his couch they bore, / And gently plac'd him on the rocky ſhore.
To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise…
To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
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To drag, to pull, to tug.
- The 26-year-old [Papiss Cissé] has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.
Followed by up
Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- A veſſel ſailing as near as ſhe can to the point from which the wind blows, is ſaid to be cloſe hauled.
Of the wind
Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west.
To haul ass (“go fast”).
- “How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force
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.
- Getting to his place was a real haul.
- I find long-haul travel by airplane tiring.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items…
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- The robber’s haul was over thirty items.
- The trawler landed a ten-ton haul.
Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and…
Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
The neighborhood
- neighborhale
Derived
backhaul, clubhaul, club haul, downhaul, haulable, haulabout, haul around, haul ass, haul down, haulee, haul in, haul off, haul one's ashes, haul out, haulout, haul over the coals, haul someone over the coals, haul tail, haul up, inhaul, keel haul, line haul, manhaul, mishaul, outhaul, overhaul, rehaul, steam-hauled, U-Haul, unhaul, unhauled, uphaul, anti-haul, for the long haul, grocery haul, haulage, hauler, haul girl, haulier, haul-pack truck · +12 more
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA