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haul

  [hawl]
Use haul in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
2. to cart or transport; carry: He hauled freight.
3. to cause to descend; lower (often fol. by down): to haul down the flag.
4. to arrest or bring before a magistrate or other authority (often fol. by before, in, to, into, etc.): He was hauled before the judge.
–verb (used without object)
5. to pull or tug.
6. to go or come to a place, esp. with effort: After roistering about the streets, they finally hauled into the tavern.
7. to do carting or transport, or move freight commercially.
8. Nautical.
a. to sail, as in a particular direction.
b. to draw or pull a vessel up on land, as for repairs or storage.
c. (of the wind) to shift to a direction closer to the heading of a vessel (opposed to veer ).
d. (of the wind) to change direction, shift, or veer (often fol. by round or to).
–noun
9. an act or instance of hauling; a strong pull or tug.
10. something that is hauled.
11. the load hauled at one time; quantity carried or transported.
12. the distance or route over which anything is hauled.
13. Fishing.
a. the quantity of fish taken at one draft of the net.
b. the draft of a fishing net.
c. the place where a seine is hauled.
14. the act of taking or acquiring something.
15. something that is taken or acquired: The thieves' haul included several valuable paintings.
—Verb phrases
16. haul off,
a. Nautical. to change a ship's course so as to get farther off from an object.
b. to withdraw; leave.
c. Informal. to draw back the arm in order to strike; prepare to deal a blow: He hauled off and struck the insolent lieutenant a blow to the chin.
17. haul up,
a. to bring before a superior for judgment or reprimand; call to account.
b. to come to a halt; stop.
c. Nautical. to change the course of (a sailing vessel) so as to sail closer to the wind.
d. Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to come closer to the wind.
e. Nautical. (of a vessel) to come to a halt.
—Idioms
18. haul around, Nautical.
a. to brace (certain yards of a sailing vessel).
b. (of the wind) to change in a clockwise direction.
19. haul in with, Nautical. to approach.
20. haul or shag ass, Slang: Vulgar. to get a move on; hurry.
21. long haul,
a. a relatively great period of time: In the long haul, he'll regret having been a school dropout.
b. a relatively great distance: It's a long haul from Maine to Texas.
c. Nautical. the drawing up on shore of a vessel for a relatively long period of time, as for winter storage or longer.
22. short haul,
a. a relatively small period of time: For the short haul, he'll be able to get by on what he earns.
b. a relatively little distance: The axle wouldn't break for just a short haul.
c. Nautical. the drawing up on shore of a vessel for a relatively short period, as for repairs or painting.
Origin:
1550–60; earlier hall, var. of hale 2

Synonyms:
1. See draw.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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haul   (hôl)   
v.   hauled, haul·ing, hauls

v.   tr.
  1. To pull or drag forcibly; tug. See Synonyms at pull.
  2. To transport, as with a truck or cart.
  3. Informal To compel to go, especially for trial: "hauled the huge companies into court" (Peter Matthiessen).
  4. Nautical To change the course of (a ship), especially in order to sail closer into the wind.
v.   intr.
  1. To pull; tug.
  2. To provide transportation; cart.
    1. To shift direction: The wind hauled to the east.
    2. To change one's mind.
  4. Nautical To change the course of a ship.
n.  
  1. The act of pulling or dragging.
  2. The act of transporting or carting.
  3. A distance, especially the distance over which something is pulled or transported.
  4. Something that is pulled or transported; a load.
  5. Everything collected or acquired by a single effort; the take: a big haul of fish.
  6. To draw back slightly, as in preparation for initiating an action: "hauled off and smacked the hapless aide across the face" (Bill Barol).
  7. To shift operations to a new place; to move away.
Phrasal Verb(s):
haul off Informal
  1. To draw back slightly, as in preparation for initiating an action: "hauled off and smacked the hapless aide across the face" (Bill Barol).
  2. To shift operations to a new place; to move away.
haul upTo come to a halt.

Idiom(s):
haul ass Vulgar Slang To move quickly: We'll be late if you don't haul ass.

[Middle English haulen, from Old French haler, of Germanic origin; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
haul'er n.
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Haul

Haul\ (h[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled (h[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol[=o]n, hal[=o]n, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.]

1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.

Some dance, some haul the rope. --Denham.

Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land. --Pope.

Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. --Thomson.

2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, 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. --U. S. Grant.

To haul over the coals. See under Coal.

To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.

Haul

Haul\, v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.

I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. --Cook.

2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind.

To haul off (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.

Haul

Haul\, n. 1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.

2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : haul
Spanish: tirar de, arrastrar,
German: ziehen,
Japanese: 強く引っぱる
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haul 
1581, variant spelling of M.E. halen (see hale (v.)), representing a 13c. change in pronunciation. The noun is from the sense of hauling with fishing nets.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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haul

In addition to the idioms beginning with haul, also see long haul; rake (haul) over the coals.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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