haul Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of drawing or hauling something
    haulage; draw.
    • the haul up the hill went very slowly
  2. noun the quantity that was caught
    catch.
    • the catch was only 10 fish
  3. verb draw slowly or heavily
    hale; drag; cart.
    • haul stones
    • haul nets
  4. verb transport in a vehicle
    • haul stones from the quarry in a truck
    • haul vegetables to the market

WordNet

Haul transitive verb
Etymology
OE. halen, halien, F. aler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. holn, haln, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. to call. Cf. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Hauled ; present participle & verbal noun Hauling
Definitions
  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.
Haul intransitive verb
Definitions
  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. haul off (b), to get ready (usu. for violent action) -- used with "and" -- "hauled off and punched him on the nose"
Haul noun
Definitions
  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 1913