HAUL

haul

Noun

  1. A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
  2. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
    The robber's haul was over thirty items.
    The trawler landed a ten-ton haul.
  3. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
  4. A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.

Verb

  1. To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  2. To pull or draw something heavy.
  3. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
    to haul logs to a sawmill
  4. To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
  5. To shift fore (more towards the bow).
  6. To pull.
  7. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.


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