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haul

/hɔl/

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What does haul mean?

verb

  1. To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  2. To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
More meanings (12)

verb

  1. (figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
  2. (figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  3. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  4. To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
  5. Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
  6. To haul ass (“go fast”).

noun

  1. An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
  2. The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
  3. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
  4. Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
  5. A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
  6. Four goals scored by one player in a game.
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IPA pronunciation

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Other dictionary pronunciations

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In the pages of books

See this word in context.

“Blest if the old Nonesuch ain’t a heppin’ us out agin,” and he begun to haul out yaller-jackets and stack them up.
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry FinnProject Gutenberg ebook #76
“Let the signorino take the tiller, and you with the others stand by to haul the boat alongside quickly at the word.”
Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #1058
More book examples (3)
The line is snatched in a block upon the swifter, and three or four men haul it in and coil it away.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
Though heavy and often awkward to gather and haul, if they are available, seaweeds should not be permitted to go to waste.
Steve SolomonOrganic Gardener's CompostingProject Gutenberg ebook #4342
The contents of the haul supplied the biologists with the work of sorting and bottling for the next twelve hours or more.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137