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haul
CIDE DICTIONARY
haul, v. t. [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. 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. kalei^n to call. Cf. Hale, v. t. , Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.].
- To pull or draw with force; to drag. [1913 Webster]"Some dance, some haul the rope." [1913 Webster]"Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land." [1913 Webster]"Romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust." [1913 Webster] - To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill. [1913 Webster]"When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops." [1913 Webster]
haul, v. i.
- To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul,
v. t. [1913 Webster]"I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island." [1913 Webster] - To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. [1913 Webster]
haul, n.
- A pulling with force; a violent pull. [1913 Webster]
- A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul. [1913 Webster]
- That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net. [1913 Webster]
- Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul. [1913 Webster]
- A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
haul, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. pull or drag forcibly.
2 tr. transport by lorry, cart, etc.
3 intr. turn a ship's course.
4 tr. colloq. (usu. foll. by up) bring for reprimand or trial.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of hauling.
2 an amount gained or acquired.
3 a distance to be traversed (a short haul).
--v.
1 tr. pull or drag forcibly.
2 tr. transport by lorry, cart, etc.
3 intr. turn a ship's course.
4 tr. colloq. (usu. foll. by up) bring for reprimand or trial.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of hauling.
2 an amount gained or acquired.
3 a distance to be traversed (a short haul).
Idiom
haul over the coals see COAL.
Etymology
var. of HALE(2)
THESAURUS
haul
attraction, bag, barge, blackmail, board, boat, boodle, boom, boost, booty, bring to, burden, bus, capture, cargo, carry, cart, cast loose, catch, clap on ratlines, clear hawse, coach, convey, cut loose, draft, drag, draggle, draw, dray, elevate, ferry, float, freight, graft, hale, harvest, haul down, haul off, haul the wind, haul to, haul up, head to windward, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, heave to, hoist, hot goods, kedge, lading, lay, lay aloft, lift, lighter, load, log, loot, lug, move, overexert, overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress, overtax, overtaxing, payload, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, press, prize, public till, public trough, pull, rack, raft, raise, ratline down, remove, sail to windward, seizure, shift, ship, sled, sledge, snake, spar down, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, strain, strain every nerve, straining, stream the log, stress, stress and strain, stressfulness, stretch, swag, sweat blood, take, take in tow, tax, taxing, tense, tension, till, tow, trail, train, transport, traverse a yard, trawl, troll, truck, tug, unlash, uphelm, van, wagon, warp, weather, wheelbarrow, yieldROGET THESAURUS
haul
Taking
N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.Traction
N traction, drawing, draught, pull, haul, rake, a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together, towage, haulage, drawing, tractile, tractive.VB draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train, take in tow, wrench, jerk, twitch, touse, yank.
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