HAUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haul mean? 

• HAUL (noun)
  The noun HAUL has 2 senses:

1. the act of drawing or hauling something

2. the quantity that was caught

  Familiarity information: HAUL used as a noun is rare.

• HAUL (verb)
  The verb HAUL has 2 senses:

1. draw slowly or heavily

2. transport in a vehicle

  Familiarity information: HAUL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of drawing or hauling something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

draw; haul; haulage

Context example:

the haul up the hill went very slowly

Hypernyms ("haul" is a kind of...):

pull; pulling (the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "haul"):

tow; towage (the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope)

Derivation:

haul (transport in a vehicle)

haul (draw slowly or heavily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity that was caught

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

catch; haul

Context example:

the catch was only 10 fish

Hypernyms ("haul" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

• HAUL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they haul    ... he / she / it hauls   
Past simple: hauled   
Past participle: hauled   
-ing form: hauling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw slowly or heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cart; drag; hale; haul

Context example:

haul nets

Hypernyms (to "haul" is one way to...):

draw; pull (cause to move by pulling)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "haul"):

bouse; bowse (haul with a tackle)

underrun (haul onto a boat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

haul; haulage (the act of drawing or hauling something)

hauler (a haulage contractor)

hauling (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transport in a vehicle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

haul vegetables to the market

Hypernyms (to "haul" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "haul"):

piggyback (haul by railroad car)

piggyback (haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

haul; haulage (the act of drawing or hauling something)

hauler (a haulage contractor)

hauling (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

 Context examples 

The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run so much the easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was no pulling and hauling on sheets and tackles, no shifting of topsails, no work at all for the sailors to do except to steer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled aft the fore-sheet; the helm was hard a-weather.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We have over-hauled every boat, big and little.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You hold on to him, and you may kiss the book that he’ll haul you through.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was nothing for the dogs to do, save the hauling in of meat now and again that Thornton killed, and Buck spent long hours musing by the fire.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The dogs worked in single file, one behind another, hauling on double traces.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“No shifting, nothing shy, no hugging nor hauling. It’s a shame to let him fight. Take the brave fellow away!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Might we not haul down sail and wait for better times?” suggested Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Much less is known about native ices in this group than in the long-haul comets from the Oort Cloud.

(NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P, NASA)