From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
haul
n 1: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the
hill went very slowly" [syn: draw, haulage]
2: the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
[syn: catch]
v 1: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn:
hale, cart, drag]
2: transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a
truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Haul \Haul\ (h[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled (h[add]ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.] [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[=o]n, hal[=o]n,
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.]
1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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Some dance, some haul the rope. --Denham.
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Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
--Pope.
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Romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust. --Thomson.
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2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to
haul logs to a sawmill.
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When I was seven or eight years of age, I began
hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
--U. S. Grant.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Haul \Haul\, v. i.
1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the
wind. See under Haul, v. t.
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I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an
island. --Cook.
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2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Haul \Haul\, n.
1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
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2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at
a haul.
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3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by
hauling a net.
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4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which
anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a
long haul or short haul.
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5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to
be tarred.
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