haul
/hɔl/ verb C1- To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. · to haul logs to a sawmill
- To draw or pull something heavy.
- To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- To drag, to pull, to tug.
- Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
He/she/it hauls · Past hauled · Past participle hauled · -ing form hauling
Verb forms
- Base form
- haul
- He/she/it
- hauls
- Past
- hauled
- Past participle
- hauled
- -ing form
- hauling
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
‘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.’”
A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish.
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.
Then suddenly he hauled something in as a fisherman lands a fish—some large, round object which obscured the light as it was dragged through the open casement.
Other matches
- haul An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with... C2
- 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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