HAUL
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Haul (h&asuml_;l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled (h&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol&ō;n, hal&ō;n, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.] 1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
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Some dance, some haul the rope.
Denham.
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Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
Pope.
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Romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
Thomson.
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2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
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When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
U. S. Grant.
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To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
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Haul, v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
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I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
Cook.
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2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
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To haul around (Naut.), to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind. -- To haul off (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.
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Haul, n. 1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
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2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
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3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
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4. 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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5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
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