HAULING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hauling mean? 

• HAULING (noun)
  The noun HAULING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of transporting goods by truck

  Familiarity information: HAULING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAULING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of transporting goods by truck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hauling; truckage; trucking

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

shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

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

cartage; carting (the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it)

Derivation:

haul (transport in a vehicle)

haul (draw slowly or heavily)

 Context examples 

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)

Then I removed the sprit, tightly hauling down the peak of the sail, and we raced along under what sailors call a leg-of-mutton.

(The Sea-Wolf, 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)

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

(White Fang, by Jack London)

None the less, his success continued, and the less skilful hunters were often kept busy hauling in his meat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He talked o' keel-hauling, did he?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Some eddying fragments I saw in the sea, as if a mere cask had been broken, in running to the spot where they were hauling in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In another instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face and a shock of very red hair.

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

Finally he descended and carried up two other packets of mixed goods—a box of ammunition and a number of other things, all of which we got across by throwing our rope to him and hauling it back.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, his hands were full with his sister, or his arms, rather; while Buck was too near dead to be of further use in hauling the sled.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)