haul

/hɔːl//hɔl/

noun

  1. 1

    An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.

  2. 2

    The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.

    Getting to his place was a real haul.
  3. 3

    An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

    The robber’s haul was over thirty items.
  4. 4

    Short for haul video.

  5. 5

    (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.

verb

  1. 1

    To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.

    to haul logs to a sawmill
  2. 2

    To draw or pull something heavy.

  3. 3

    To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

  4. 4

    To drag, to pull, to tug.

  5. 5

    Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.

  6. 6

    To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

  7. 7

    To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.

  8. 8

    Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).

  9. 9

    To haul ass.

    “How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”

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