haul
IPA: hˈɔɫ
noun
- 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.]
verb
- (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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Examples of "haul" in Sentences
- The basket is hauled out of the tank.
- Recounting the Americans 'medal haul from the Games
- They're definitely in it for the haul of the series.
- Jack and Locke haul one of the cases out of the ship.
- Reduce the waste hauled to and disposed of in landfills.
- The line hauls gypsum rock from the quarry to the plant.
- The trucks haul ore from the shovel to primary crushers.
- I was hauled out of the trench and placed in the ambulance.
- Short haul is better handled by well-located regional airports.
- The last act is to haul the sheets and set the sail to the wind.
- The police raid the joint and the princess is hauled off to jail.
- Marines haul the ship to the beach, and the apes remove their helmets.
- That's the only way you're going to win majors over the long haul is to give yourself chances.
- Maybe some of us just don't want to accept that the mancs will equal our title haul this season.
- That pirated copies of X-Men Origins: Wolverine were discovered amongst the haul is especially disappointing.
- * Brutal column from Jon Ralston, who argues that Angle's massive fundraising haul is being financed by "hatred."
- LL, your book haul is a thing of beauty – and I know your thoughts on each one of them will blow out my own reading list into something much more wishful!
- Boston Celtics on Tuesday morning, saying the sole reason he came to Boston was to try to add to his title haul and is willing to play any role Doc Rivers envisions for him.
- The Star Tribune calls the total "unprecedented," noting that the three-month haul is greater than any Minnesota congressional hopeful has ever raised in an entire election cycle.
- United captured their 18th league crown to equal Liverpool's record and Torres now fears their arch-rivals will increase their title haul unless Benitez signs someone with the genius of Rooney.