Haul

Quick meaning: Haul is a verb meaning (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.

Meaning

(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
2. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
4. (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
5. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
6. (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
7. (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).

Example Sentences

to haul logs to a sawmill

The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.

Thither they bent, and haul'd their ſhip to land, / (The crooked keel divides the yellow ſand) / Ulyſſes ſleeping on his couch they bore, / And gently plac'd him on the rocky ſhore.

United lost [Chris] Smalling to a second yellow card for hauling back Yannick Bolasie in extra time – but [Jesse] Lingard took the trophy to Old Trafford when he lashed home a first-time strike from Damien Delaney's half-clearance after 110 minutes.

Word Forms

• hauls
• hauling
• hauled

Synonyms for haul

Depending on context, synonyms include booty, poker, draw, drag, catch, cart.

Antonyms for haul

Common opposites include veer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include haulage, catch, cart, draw, drag, hoist.

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