Manhaul

Quick meaning: Manhaul is a verb meaning (transitive) To pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.

Meaning

(transitive) To pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.

More Meanings

1. The act or practice of pulling sledges, trucks, etc. by human power, unaided by animals or machines.
2. A sledge, travois, etc. that is pulled by human power, along with the cargo it is carrying.
3. (US, dated, naval, slang) A meal.
4. A truck with two long benches in the back (oriented the long way) for people to sit on, or any similar utilitarian vehicle designed to carry many people.

Example Sentences

That night I asked Ginny to get this manhaul equipment to us the next day in the Twin Otter.

Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.

After Jim had secured his load, he moved off and must have been a quarter of a mile ahead before Ralph and I set off with the manhaul in tow.

He would die in the Arctic, but in 1908 he manhauled to the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson and Edgeworth David, and on the way they camped near our spot.

Word Forms

• manhauls
• manhauling
• manhauled
• man-haul

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include haul, manhandle, boxhaul, horse, uphaul, sled.

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