Haul

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pull or drag forcibly; tug. See Synonyms at pull.
  • v. To transport, as with a truck or cart.
  • v. Informal To compel to go, especially for trial: "hauled the huge companies into court” ( Peter Matthiessen).
  • v. Nautical To change the course of (a ship), especially in order to sail closer into the wind.
  • verb-intransitive. To pull; tug.
  • verb-intransitive. To provide transportation; cart.
  • verb-intransitive. To shift direction: The wind hauled to the east.
  • verb-intransitive. To change one's mind.
  • verb-intransitive. Nautical To change the course of a ship.
  • n. The act of pulling or dragging.
  • n. The act of transporting or carting.
  • n. A distance, especially the distance over which something is pulled or transported.
  • n. Something that is pulled or transported; a load.
  • n. Everything collected or acquired by a single effort; the take: a big haul of fish.
  • phrasal-verb. haul off Informal To draw back slightly, as in preparation for initiating an action: "hauled off and smacked the hapless aide across the face” ( Bill Barol).
  • phrasal-verb. haul off Informal To shift operations to a new place; to move away.
  • phrasal-verb. haul up To come to a halt.
  • idiom. haul ass Vulgar Slang To move quickly: We'll be late if you don't haul ass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  • v. To pull or draw something heavy.
  • v. To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
  • v. To shift fore (more towards the bow).
  • v. To pull.
  • n. A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
  • n. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
  • n. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
  • n. A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
  • v. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
  • verb-intransitive. To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under haul, v. t.
  • verb-intransitive. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  • n. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
  • n. A single draught of a net.
  • 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.
  • n. A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pull or draw with force; move or transport by drawing; drag: as, to haul down the sails; to haul in the boom; to haul a load of wood.
  • Synonyms Drag, Draw, etc. See draw.
  • To pull or tug; endeavor to drag something: as, to haul at a heavy load.
  • Nautical, to alter a ship's course; change the direction of sailing; move on a new course; hence, to sail, in general.
  • To shift, veer, or change, as the wind.
  • To draw off or away; withdraw, as from a movement or scheme.
  • n. A pulling with force; a pull; a tug.
  • n. In fishing: The draft of a net: as, to catch so many fish at a haul.
  • n. The place where a seine is hauled.
  • n. That which is taken or obtained by hauling; specifically, the number or quantity of fish taken in one haul of a seine; a catch.
  • n. Hence Any valuable acquisition; a “find.”
  • n. The distance and route over which something is hauled.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of drawing or hauling something
  • n. the quantity that was caught
  • v. draw slowly or heavily
  • v. transport in a vehicle
  • Antonym
    veer   
    Verb Form
    hauled    hauling    hauls   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    hauled    hauling    haulier    long-haul    haulable    longhauling    haulage    haul down    hauler   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drag   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ball    Fall    Gaul    Hall    Montreal    Nepal    Paul    Raul    Saul    Senegal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    drag    tug    climb    pull    kick    heave    hike    cargo    push    jump