haul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːl/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /hɔl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /hɑl/
note: of the US
ipa: /hɒl/
ipa: /hoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: hall
Forms: form: hauls
Etymology: From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).
Senses: examples: text: So I rigged my big salmon rod, and when I heard him splashing in the shallows across the pool, I put a few Alka Seltzer tablets onto the hook and cast into the darkness. There was a splash and a haul on my line, and this time I struck with both hands and then began pulling and horsing as hard as I could to bring this big fish over to my side.
ref: 1971, Sparse Grey Hackle [pseudonym], “Who is Sparse Grey Hackle?”, in Fishless Days, Angling Nights, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →OCLC; republished as Fishless Days, Angling Nights: Classic Stories, Reminiscences, and Lore, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Then another series of hollered orders, a heave on the wheel, and the brig did a circuit of the flagship's bow, perilously close to the long bowsprit. A haul at the braces and back along the larboard side of the Vincennes the Swallow ran, losing speed but still sending foam seething along the hull of the sloop of war.
ref: 2004, Joan Druett, chapter 6, in A Watery Grave (Wiki Coffin Adventure; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN; republished as A Watery Grave (Wiki Coffin Mysteries; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
examples: text: Getting to his place was a real haul.
text: I find long-haul travel by airplane tiring.
text: The condition, par excellence, in favor of motor truck operation is one involving long hauls. In fact, it may be almost said that any one having to make long hauls in his business should motorize at once without further debate, as the case for trucks is practically settled by the mere statement of this condition. […] Transportation involving short hauls is the obverse of the ideal, and as a general thing represents a condition unfavorable for the operation of motor trucks.
ref: 1921, Victor W[ilfred] Pagé, “Truck Operating Cost Determination”, in The Modern Motor Truck: Design, Construction, Operation, Repair, Commercial Applications …, New York, N.Y.: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, page 893:
text: Many routes to/from hubs on which the anti-competitive effects of market power are likely to be most marked are relatively short hauls, whereas many of the through markets most likely to benefit from greater competition are relatively long hauls. If scheduling through hubs causes fares in through (long haul) markets to fall and fares in local (short haul) markets to rise, this can result in the structure of fares by distance reflecting more closely the manner in which average costs vary by route length.
ref: 2007, Pat Hanlon, “Scheduling through Hubs”, in Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry, 3rd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Burlington, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, section 5.6 (Effects on Passengers), page 232:
glosses: The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
examples: text: The robber’s haul was over thirty items.
text: The trawler landed a ten-ton haul.
text: At Kidney's Cove there was a seine of one hundred and seventy-five fathoms in length and twenty-four feet in depth, operated by a crew of twelve men. The daily hauls were ten, and was fished from April 13th or June 6th. Gross receipts, $1,600.
ref: 1876, “Commissioners of Fisheries. Burlington County.”, in Seventh Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of New Jersey, for the Year 1876, Trenton, N.J.: John L. Murphy, State Gazette Printing House, →OCLC, page 9:
text: One of the biggest "hauls" ever made in the tire business is alleged to have been engineered last week by H. R. Hare, a former cashier of the Hartford Rubber Works. Most of the larger tire concerns doing business in New York were the victims, the total amount stolen being in the neighborhood of $25,000 worth.
ref: 1911 April 12, “Got Away with $25,000 Worth of Tires, It is Said”, in The Horseless Age: First Automobile Journal in the English Language, volume XXVII, number 15, New York, N.Y.: Horseless Age Co., →OCLC, page 647, column 2:
text: Besides Maxim the only other person in sight was a beachcomber so wrapped in scarves he could have been a pilgrim from the Middle Ages. He dragged a sledge with a haul of driftwood, bottles and cans.
ref: 2013, Martin Cruz Smith, Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel (Arkady Renko; 8), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN; 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, November 2014, →ISBN, page 173:
text: A welcome two-week break after nine races in 11 weeks before the Russian Grand Prix, where Hamilton can equal a record some felt might never be broken - Schumacher's haul of 91 victories.
ref: 2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
examples: text: Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas. In her 2017 haul that's been watched 1.7 million times, Olivia Jade – a 19-year-old beauty and fashion tipster and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin – sat on a plush white bed in polar bear pyjamas and a Santa hat. One by one, she showed off a bottle of Valentino perfume ("sweet mixed with floral"), a cropped, purple fuzzy sweater from Urban Outfitters, bikinis, sneakers, jeans, underwear, high heels, dresses, tops and more.
ref: 2018 December 24, Rachel Siegel, “Holiday shopping in the age of Instagram”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, N.S.W.: Nine Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2019:
glosses: Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
examples: text: When the collected yarns number about 400, they are coiled up in a haul, and are ready either for tarring, or laying into white ropes. Previous to the haul being taken up for tarring, there is a slight turn put into it to keep it from getting entangled in the tar-kettle. […] 400 of such threads constituted a haul, and weighed 12 cwt. 2 qrs, and when tarred 15 cwt.
ref: 1842, B. S., “Rope-making”, in Macvey Napier, editor, The Encyclopædia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 7th edition, volume XIX, issue 2, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, page 461, column 2:
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
ropemaking
transport
glosses: A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
examples: text: Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
ref: 2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: poker
glosses: Four goals scored by one player in a game.
Synonyms: sense: amount of illegal loot taken
word: booty
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: anti-haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: for the long haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: grocery haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: haulage
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: hauler
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: haul girl
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: haulier
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: haul-pack truck
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word: haul road
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: haul truck
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: haul video
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: linehaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: longhauling
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: long haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: long-haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: mass haul diagram
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: over the long haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: short haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (noun)
word: short-haul