haul

IPA: hˈɔɫ

An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
(Britain, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”). [A video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about their recently-purchased items.]

(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
(transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
(transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
(transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
(intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
(intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
(intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).

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