haul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
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
form: hauling
form: hauled
form: hauled
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: to haul logs to a sawmill
text: When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at the time, but I could drive [the horses], and the choppers would load, and some one at the house unload.
ref: 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, “Ancestry—Birth—Boyhood”, in Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. In Two Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
examples: text: Thither they bent, and haul'd their ſhip to land, / (The crooked keel divides the yellow ſand) / Ulyſſes ſleeping on his couch they bore, / And gently plac'd him on the rocky ſhore.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book XIII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 194, lines 136–139:
text: A spacious breach we make, and Troy's proud wall, / Built by the gods, by her own hands doth fall; / Thus all their help to their own ruin give, / Some draw with cords and some the monster drive / With rolls and levers: thus our works it climbs, / Big with our fate; the youth with songs and rhimes, / Some dance, some haul the rope; at last let down / It enters with a thundering noise the town, / Oh Troy, the seat of gods, in war renown'd!
ref: 1810, John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy. An Essay on the Second Book of Virgil’s Æneis. Written in the Year 1636.”, in Alexander Chalmers, edited by Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; […] In Twenty-one Volumes, volume VII (Cowley, Denham, Milton), London: Printed [by C[harles] Whittingham] for J[oseph] Johnson [et al.], →OCLC, page 240:
text: Passing through the entrance of the harbour, the admiral proceeds to manœuvre his flet, to the great gratification of the host of spectators, […] [H]e hoists Dutch colours and fires two guns. This is the signal for a general chase after an imaginary enemy, a chase which continues till he hauls down his flag and fires another gun.
ref: 1912, A. Rogers, “Yachting”, in The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games: In Four Volumes, The Sportsman edition, volumes IV (Rackets–Zebra), London: [The Sportsman?], →OCLC, page 357, column 2:
text: The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.
ref: 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
text: United lost [Chris] Smalling to a second yellow card for hauling back Yannick Bolasie in extra time – but [Jesse] Lingard took the trophy to Old Trafford when he lashed home a first-time strike from Damien Delaney's half-clearance after 110 minutes.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1 – 2 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: To draw or pull something heavy.
examples: text: The California fruit trade is all handled by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads. The last named road operates its own refrigerator cars and fixes its own rates. It hauls fully half of the traffic and it is therefore evident that the "Beef Trust" has no voice or power in the matter. […] The same condition exists with the melon grower of Colorado, except that in this case the Santa Fe road hauls nearly all of the product.
ref: 1905 February 4, “Why Not Tell the Truth?”, in W. M. Camp, editor, The Railway and Engineering Review, volume XLV, number 5, Chicago, Ill.: Railway Review Inc. […], →OCLC, page 73, column 1:
glosses: To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
examples: text: The 26-year-old [Papiss Cissé] has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2018:
glosses: To drag, to pull, to tug.
examples: text: Well, it is impossible to carry stock by train or steamer without causing some pain or suffering, and to be hauled up before a Justice of the Peace […] without a warrant because somebody thinks you have caused unnecessary pain seems to me to be an outrageous proceeding. […] [T]o enact a Draconian law that if anybody who does not know anything about the subject thinks when you are trying to get a bullock into a truck when he will not go you are acting cruelly he can inform the police, and you can be arrested there and then and hauled up before a Justice of the Peace.
ref: 1908 August 6, William Herbert Herries, “Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Fourth Session, Sixteenth Parliament (House of Representatives), volume 144, Wellington: John Mackay, government printer, →OCLC, page 188, column 1:
glosses: Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
glosses: To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
examples: text: When the Admiral hauls out of the Line, and remains ſo for ſome Accident, although the Signal for the Line is flying, and the Signal for Battle then out, ought not the other Ships to continue in the Line, doing their Duty, engaging the Enemy?
ref: 1745 October 7, Charles Fearne, “The Trial at Large of Captain George Burrish, […]”, in Minutes of the Proceedings of a Court-Martial, Assembled on the 23d of September, 1745, […] to Enquire into the Conduct of Admiral Matthews [i.e., Thomas Mathews], Vice-Admiral [Richard] Lestock, and Several Other Officers, in and Relating to the Late Engagement between His Majesty’s Fleet and the Combined Fleets of France and Spain off Toulon, London: Published with His Majesty's royal privilege and licence, published 1746, →OCLC, page 240:
text: On Tueſday the 4th of April, about ten o'clock in the morning, Mr. Banks's ſervant, Peter Briſcoe, diſcovered land, bearing fourth, at the diſtance of about three or four leagues. I immediately hauled up for it, and found it to be an iſland of an oval form, with a lagoon in the middle, which occupied much the larger part of it; […]
ref: 1769 April 4, James Cook, “[An Account of a Voyage around the World, in the Years MDCCLXVIII, MDCCLXIX, MDCCLXX, and MDCCLXXI. By Lieutenant James Cook, Commander of His Majesty’s Bark the Endeavour.] Chapter VII”, in John Hawkesworth, editor, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, […] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […], published 1773, →OCLC, page 72:
text: A veſſel ſailing as near as ſhe can to the point from which the wind blows, is ſaid to be cloſe hauled.
ref: 1780, J[ohn] Robertson, William Wales, “Section VII. Of Sailing to Windward.”, in The Elements of Navigation; Containing the Theory and Practice. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: Printed for J[ohn] Nourse, […], →OCLC, book VII (Of Plane Sailing), paragraph 43, page 42:
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: veer
glosses: To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
examples: text: The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: veer
glosses: Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
examples: text: “How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”
glosses: To haul ass (“go fast”).
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: backhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: clubhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: club haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: downhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haulable
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haulabout
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul around
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul ass
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul down
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haulee
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul in
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul off
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul one's ashes
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul out
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haulout
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul over the coals
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul someone over the coals
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul tail
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: haul up
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: inhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: keel haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: line haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: manhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: mishaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: outhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: overhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: rehaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: steam-hauled
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: U-Haul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: unhaul
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: unhauled
sense: Terms derived from haul (verb)
word: uphaul
Related terms: word: hale