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Haul

//hɔːl// noun, verb, slang

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Noun

1
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
"So I rigged my big salmon rod, and when I heard him splashing in the shallows across the pool, I put a few Alka Seltzer tablets onto the hook and cast into the darkness. There was a splash and a haul on my line, and this time I struck with both hands and then began pulling and horsing as hard as I could to bring this big fish over to my side."
2
the act of drawing or hauling something wordnet
3
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
"Getting to his place was a real haul."
4
the quantity that was caught wordnet
5
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
"The robber’s haul was over thirty items."

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6
Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”). Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas. In her 2017 haul that's been watched 1.7 million times, Olivia Jade – a 19-year-old beauty and fashion tipster and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin – sat on a plush white bed in polar bear pyjamas and a Santa hat. One by one, she showed off a bottle of Valentino perfume ("sweet mixed with floral"), a cropped, purple fuzzy sweater from Urban Outfitters, bikinis, sneakers, jeans, underwear, high heels, dresses, tops and more."
7
A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
"When the collected yarns number about 400, they are coiled up in a haul, and are ready either for tarring, or laying into white ropes. Previous to the haul being taken up for tarring, there is a slight turn put into it to keep it from getting entangled in the tar-kettle. […] 400 of such threads constituted a haul, and weighed 12 cwt. 2 qrs, and when tarred 15 cwt."
8
Four goals scored by one player in a game. British
"Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'."

Verb

1
To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. transitive
"to haul logs to a sawmill"
2
transport in a vehicle wordnet
3
To draw or pull something heavy. transitive
"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."
4
draw slowly or heavily wordnet
5
To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. transitive
"The California fruit trade is all handled by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads. The last named road operates its own refrigerator cars and fixes its own rates. It hauls fully half of the traffic and it is therefore evident that the "Beef Trust" has no voice or power in the matter. […] The same condition exists with the melon grower of Colorado, except that in this case the Santa Fe road hauls nearly all of the product."

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To drag, to pull, to tug. figuratively, transitive
"The 26-year-old [Papiss Cissé] has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road."
7
Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something. figuratively, transitive
"Well, it is impossible to carry stock by train or steamer without causing some pain or suffering, and to be hauled up before a Justice of the Peace […] without a warrant because somebody thinks you have caused unnecessary pain seems to me to be an outrageous proceeding. […] [T]o enact a Draconian law that if anybody who does not know anything about the subject thinks when you are trying to get a bullock into a truck when he will not go you are acting cruelly he can inform the police, and you can be arrested there and then and hauled up before a Justice of the Peace."
8
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. intransitive
9
To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind. ambitransitive
"When the Admiral hauls out of the Line, and remains ſo for ſome Accident, although the Signal for the Line is flying, and the Signal for Battle then out, ought not the other Ships to continue in the Line, doing their Duty, engaging the Enemy?"
10
Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow). intransitive
"The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west."
11
To haul ass (“go fast”). US, colloquial, intransitive
"“How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

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