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Hauling   /hˈɔlɪŋ/   Listen
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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"Hauling" Quotes from Famous Books



... but not a glimpse of land was visible—nothing but sea and sky on every side around of a leaden grey hue—not a streak in the horizon showed where the sun was rising. They could only guess by the wind the points of the compass. Harry proposed hauling up for where they supposed the land to be, but David considered that such a proceeding would be dangerous, and that it would be safer to run on till the weather moderated and they could get sail on the boat. They neither of them sufficiently calculated the strength of the tide, ...
— Adrift in a Boat • W.H.G. Kingston
... large quantity of rubbish,—the collected firewood which the locusts had not devoured. This would enable them to carry out their purpose; and all three immediately set about hauling it up, and piling it against ...
— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid
... answered by others. The reds were not far away. Frank McCarthy, missing Will, stationed guards, and ran back to look for him. He found the lad hauling the dead warrior ashore, and seizing his hand, cried out: "Well done, my boy; you've killed your first Indian, and done it like ...
— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore
... great majority, running to the bow or stern, threw themselves overboard and swam to the other ships. The pirate ship on the other side of Santoval's galley instantly threw off the grapnels and thrust off from her side, and, immediately hauling in the sheets of the big sail, began at once to draw away, while her three consorts made for the mouth ...
— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty
... drawing it will be seen that it is not necessary to have clewgarnets or buntlines in reefing. The operation is performed by easing of the sheet and hauling the lee reef-tackle first, also ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various


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