Haul

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  • intransitive verb. To pull or drag forcibly: synonym: pull.
  • intransitive verb. To transport, as with a truck or cart.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To cause (oneself) to move, especially slowly or laboriously.
  • intransitive verb. To compel to go, especially for trial.
  • intransitive verb. To change the course of (a ship), especially in order to sail closer into the wind.
  • intransitive verb. To pull or drag something forcibly.
  • intransitive verb. To provide transportation; cart.
  • intransitive verb. To shift direction.
  • intransitive verb. To change the course of a ship.
  • noun. The act of pulling or dragging.
  • noun. The act of transporting or carting.
  • noun. A distance, especially the distance over which something is pulled or transported.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something that is pulled or transported; a load.
  • noun. Everything collected or acquired at a single time; the take.
  • phrasal verb. To draw back slightly, as in preparation for initiating an action.
  • phrasal verb. To withdraw or move to another place.
  • phrasal verb. To move from water onto the shore.
  • phrasal verb. To come to a halt.
  • idiom. (haul ass) To move quickly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The distance and route over which something is hauled.
  • To pull or draw with force; move or transport by drawing; drag: as, to haul down the sails; to haul in the boom; to haul a load of wood.
  • Synonyms Drag, Draw, etc. See draw.
  • To pull or tug; endeavor to drag something: as, to haul at a heavy load.
  • Nautical, to alter a ship's course; change the direction of sailing; move on a new course; hence, to sail, in general.
  • To shift, veer, or change, as the wind.
  • To draw off or away; withdraw, as from a movement or scheme.
  • noun. A pulling with force; a pull; a tug.
  • noun. In fishing: The draft of a net: as, to catch so many fish at a haul.
  • noun. The place where a seine is hauled.
  • noun. That which is taken or obtained by hauling; specifically, the number or quantity of fish taken in one haul of a seine; a catch.
  • noun. Hence Any valuable acquisition; a “find.”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
  • transitive verb. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
  • transitive verb. See under Coal.
  • transitive verb. to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
  • intransitive verb. To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under haul, v. t.
  • intransitive verb. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  • intransitive verb. to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind.
  • intransitive verb. to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.
  • noun. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
  • noun. A single draught of a net.
  • noun. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
  • noun. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car.
  • noun. A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  • verb. To pull or draw something heavy.
  • verb. To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
  • verb. To shift fore (more towards the bow).
  • Word Usage
    "Boston Celtics on Tuesday morning, saying the sole reason he came to Boston was to try to add to his title haul and is willing to play any role Doc Rivers envisions for him."