haul
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hauls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hauling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hauled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hauled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to haul logs to a sawmill
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.
gloss: To draw or pull something heavy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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!
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.
The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.
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.
gloss: To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To drag, to pull, to tug.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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?
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; […]
A veſſel ſailing as near as ſhe can to the point from which the wind blows, is ſaid to be cloſe hauled.
gloss: Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west.
gloss: To haul ass (“go fast”).
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
intransitive
examples: “How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”
Related words: hale
Derived words: backhaul
clubhaul
club haul
downhaul
haulable
haulabout
haul around
haul ass
haul down
haulee
haul in
haul off
haul one's ashes
haul out
haulout
haul over the coals
haul someone over the coals
haul tail
haul up
inhaul
keel haul
line haul
manhaul
mishaul
outhaul
overhaul
rehaul
steam-hauled
U-Haul
unhaul
unhauled
uphaul
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