haul
/hɔl/ noun C2- 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. · Getting to his place was a real haul.· I find long-haul travel by airplane tiring.
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip. · The robber’s haul was over thirty items.· The trawler landed a ten-ton haul.
- A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
Plural hauls
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- haul around To shift to any point of the compass.
- haul down To violently cause to fall to the ground.
- haul in To force (a team) to stop scoring.
- haul off To alter course so as to get farther away from an object.
- haul out To come out of the water, in order to rest
- haul up Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, up.
From the library
At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.
A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish.
“Haul taut.”
‘Take in two reefs in the top-sails,’ cried the captain; ‘let go the bowlin’s, haul the brace, lower the top-gallant sails, haul out the reef-tackles on the yards.’”
Other matches
- haul To transport by drawing or pulling, as with hor... C1
- haul around To shift to any point of the compass.
- haul down To violently cause to fall to the ground.
- haul in To force
- haul off To alter course so as to get farther away from ...
- haul out To come out of the water, in order to rest
- haul up Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
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