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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



... arrested and brought to Manila in a steamer. They were bound hand and foot, and carried like packages of merchandise in the hold. I happened to be on the quay when the steamer discharged her living freight with chains and hooks to haul up and swing out the bodies like bales of hemp. From Nueva Caceres (Camarines), the Abellas and several other rich families and native priests were seized and shipped off. Poor old Manuel Abella, like scores of others, was tortured in Bilibid ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... "Then you think I ought to have been overwhelmed with delight that your car cannoned into my bus—incidentally I barked my shins badly in the general mix-up—and that I had to haul you out and bring you round from ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... is thinner upstairs," said Agamemnon, "it will do as well to cut a window as a door, and haul up anything the butcher may ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale
... that they 'did up' Misery made a big haul. He had to get up into the loft under the roof to see what was the matter with the water tank. When he got up there he found a very fine hall gas lamp made of wrought brass and copper with stained and painted glass sides. Although covered ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... the Spice Isles. Ceylon, though still the chief port of call in the Indian Ocean, has lost its preeminence as chief market for all the lands between Africa and China, which it enjoyed in the sixth century, owing to the "long haul" of ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple


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