manhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manhauls
form: man-haul
Etymology: From man + haul.
Senses: examples: text: Australians, for whom Mawson is a national hero, might have heard of his solo trek to survival in 1913, but few would know that he and another Australian, Edgeworth David, with a lone Briton, were the first men to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, and that they did it by the longest unsupported manhaul of the era of discovery.
ref: 2006, Granville Allen Mawen, South by Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.
ref: 2012, Captain R. F. Scott, The Last Expedition:
text: That night I asked Ginny to get this manhaul equipment to us the next day in the Twin Otter.
ref: 2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth:
glosses: The act or practice of pulling sledges, trucks, etc. by human power, unaided by animals or machines.
examples: text: After Jim had secured his load, he moved off and must have been a quarter of a mile ahead before Ralph and I set off with the manhaul in tow.
ref: 2021, Brian J Taylor, Tales from Bluebell Cottage:
glosses: A sledge, travois, etc. that is pulled by human power, along with the cargo it is carrying.
examples: text: During this period of rehabilitation, personnel had to be hauled over the 12 miles from the old quarters to the new in box-type manhauls that were forever breaking down.
ref: 1954 January, CDR J. L. Dowd, CEC, USN, “Something from Nothing”, in U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin, volume 8, number 1, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps: Bureau of Yards and Docks, page 14:
text: In many countries commercial bus service is infrequent and the vehicles are small. They haul animals and freight as well as people. The buses are always crowded with people perched on every square foot of the bus and sometimes hanging from windows by their fingers. Since that is the custom, they swarm over a manhaul vehicle the same way.
ref: 1960 July, Robert L. Jenkins, “Habits, Customs, Beliefs of Native Labor on Overseas Construction Concern Army, Air Force, Navy Engineers”, in The Navy Civil Engineer, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps: Bureau of Yards and Docks, page 21:
text: The mechanic and a couple of his mates came in and Toby turned to them. "Ray, get a manhaul, pull in here right at the door. See how fast you can be."
ref: 1971, Asian Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs, volumes 3–4, Cultural and Social Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region, page 92:
glosses: A truck with two long benches in the back (oriented the long way) for people to sit on, or any similar utilitarian vehicle designed to carry many people.
examples: text: During his years at SRF, Kooch never missed the manhauls (meals) at 1100 and 1600. […] Through the years as his hearing got bad, Kooch would not hear the Whistle. Since then, manhauls were delayed until he was found and ushered aboard.
ref: 1998, Dirk Anthony Ballendorf, editor, U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility: Guam History Book: 1945 to 1997, United States Department of Defense, page 54:
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glosses: A meal.