1. haul(n = noun.act) draw, haulage - the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"
is a kind of pull, pulling
has particulars: tow, towage
Derived forms verb haul2, verb haul1
2. haul(n = noun.quantity) catch - the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
is a kind of indefinite quantity
1. haul(v = verb.contact) cart, drag, hale - draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
is one way to draw, force, pull
Derived forms noun haul1, noun haulage1, noun hauler1, noun hauling1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP
2. haul(v = verb.contact) - transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"
is one way to carry, transport
Derived forms noun haul1, noun haulage1, noun hauler1, noun hauling1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP
1. 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]
2. 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]
1. To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul,
"I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island." [1913 Webster]
2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. [1913 Webster]
1. A pulling with force; a violent pull. [1913 Webster]
2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul. [1913 Webster]
3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net. [1913 Webster]
4. 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]
5. A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred. [1913 Webster]
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).
Idiom:
haul over the coals see COAL.
Etymology:
var. of HALE(2)
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.
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.