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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



... was certainly something in it. The merchant felt sure that the fishermen were having a good haul. ...
— Fifty Famous People • James Baldwin
... "'Now, haul away,' I said; 'there is a ladder bent on to the other end, which you must make fast to ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... make a start now, and haul one or two of those logs out with the oxen," he said. "Still, I'm afraid you must not expect too much from me for a ...
— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss
... be sorry to hear you speak otherwise," answered the tempter. "You are a fine young fellow, honorable, brave as a lion, and as gentle as a young girl. You would be a fine haul for the devil! I like youngsters of your sort. Get rid of one or two more prejudices, and you will see the world as it is. Make a little scene now and then, and act a virtuous part in it, and a man with a head on his shoulders can do exactly as he likes amid deafening applause ...
— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac
... most of its history has already been written, that it will have no important future. As a port of shipment, I think it must yield to the new port, Nipe Bay, on the north coast. It is merely a bit of commercial logic, the question of a sixty-mile rail-haul as compared with a voyage around the end of the island. Santiago will not be wiped from the map, but I doubt its long continuance as the leading commercial centre of eastern Cuba. It is also a fairly safe prediction that the same laws ...
— Cuba, Old and New • Albert Gardner Robinson


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