HAUL
\hˈɔːl], \hˈɔːl], \h_ˈɔː_l]\
Definitions of HAUL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
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transport something in a cart
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the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"
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the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
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transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"
By Princeton University
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draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
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transport something in a cart
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the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"
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the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
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transport, as in a truck
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
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To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
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A pulling with force; a violent pull.
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A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
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That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
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Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
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A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
By Oddity Software
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To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
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To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
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A pulling with force; a violent pull.
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A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
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That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
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Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
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A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
By Noah Webster.
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To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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A pulling with force; draught of a net; what is caught at once. To haul the wind, to turn the head of a ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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A catch, as of fish; a pull; among ropemakers, a bundle of about 400 threads to be tarred.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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To pull or draw with force; transport by drawing.
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To change the course of a ship; shift; said of the wind.
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A strong pull; draft of a net; quantity of fish caught at one time; distance over which anything is drawn.
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Hauler.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Hauler.
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To drag: to pull with violence.
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A pulling: a draught, as of fishes: an unexpected or a dishonest gain.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To draw or drag with force; transport by pulling.
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A pulling with force; something hauled in, as a draft of fishes.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The use of this word, instead of the statutory word "carry," in an indictmentcharging that the defendant "did feloniously steal, take, and haul away" certainpersonalty, will not render the indictment bad, the words being in one sense equivalent.Spittorlf v. State, 108 Ind. 171, 8 N. 10. 911.
By Henry Campbell Black
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hawl, v.t. to drag: to pull with violence.--v.i. to tug, to try to draw something: to alter a ship's course, to sail generally.--n. a pulling: a draught, as of fishes: a source of interest or profit.--ns. HAUL'AGE, act of hauling: charge for hauling or pulling a ship or boat; HAUL'ER, HAUL'IER.--HAUL OVER THE COALS (see COAL); HAUL OFF, or ROUND, to turn a ship's course away from an object; HAUL UP, to come or bring to rest after hauling. [Hale.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Pull, drag, forcibly; pull at, upon, (rope &c.); (Naut.) turn ship\'s course; h. upon the wind, bring ship round to sail closer to wind; (of wind) shift; (n.) hauling, (fig.) amount gained, acquisition. Hence haulage (3) n.
By Sir Augustus Henry
