Word Finder - haul

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An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.

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The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.

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Getting to his place was a real haul.

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An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

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The robber’s haul was over thirty items.

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Short for haul video.

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(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.

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

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to haul logs to a sawmill

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To draw or pull something heavy.

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To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

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To drag, to pull, to tug.

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Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.

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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

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To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.

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Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).

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To haul ass.

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“How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”

It was the short haul that needed work.

I don't know, but hikers can use them to haul their things.

I didn't have to haul it up with a bucket, though.

Their small car didn't have room to haul the container across the prairie.

He absorbed the blast and bent to haul her up.

You okay for them to haul you up?

Wow. Are you really ready to use outhouses and haul your own water?

She felt someone tie her hands and haul her up.

It was only a couple of blocks to Duckett's Market, but he needed the Jeep to haul the groceries.

He bought it with his haul so's he could make his getaway!

They'd haul you away from me, put you up in some sort of Bedlam, he snapped.

Not a bad haul for what David called a pile of junk!

I was downstream, on the other side of the bridge, watching Penny and by the time I noticed the crowd and got there, they were getting ready to haul Shipton out.

It used to be that if you conquered another nation, your soldiers became looters and the military got to haul off everything of value in the country.

An old forest fence which had seen its best days was a great haul for me.

The fishermen of north-east Scotland, when they return after a successful haul, divide the spoil into as many shares as there are men in the boat, with one share more for the boat.

So why haul the bike in the car and not the motor home?

Each of them expresses his opinion as to how and where to haul it.

He's coming out to gather her up and haul her home.

Now, thanks to an early February thaw, it was warm enough to haul out the front porch rockers and pretend it was summer in the warmth of the mid-afternoon sun.

Thus an engine working at maximum power may be used to haul a relatively light load at a high speed or a heavy load at a slow speed.

Everyone was pretty damn busy wrapping him up to haul him out of there, just trying to keep him alive.

When you've finished we'll stuff it all in the suitcase and you can haul it back up north to her.

We had to haul ass back to your place and pull out our bug.

The law forbids a railway or any other common carrier to charge more for a short haul than for a long haul over the same line, unless, in special cases, it is authorized to do so by the Commission.

For their sake, Xander subdued the lethal instinct that made him want to snatch Jessi, haul her away somewhere quiet and do whatever it took to pull the truth from her.

Randy and Jen made a great pair and Dean knew it would all work out in the long haul.

Andre and Kris seemed to think she was there for the long haul.

He called the local sheriff in Ouray and said he plans to come out and haul his 'mentally stressed wife' back East with him.

Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

We'll have servants to haul our water for us.

But he could kill her and haul her body into the woods before anyone came along.

The merchant felt sure that the fishermen were having a good haul.

A power block was used to haul in the trawl net.

The goal for the truckers is to haul 10,000 loads in 60 days.

The rest of the men were in it for the long haul, ready to compete in challenges and prove to Cindy that they were the best love match for her.

Max negotiates a way out for the settlers - he will provide a rig to haul their full oiltanker out of the trap, in exchange for limitless fuel for his own vehicle.

Under this system each consignment of freight is compelled to pay its share of the terminal expense, independently of distance, plus a mileage charge proportionate to the length of the journey or haul.

The so-called " long-and-short-haul clause," which forbade a greater charge for a long than for a short haul over the same line, if circumstances were substantially similar, was also robbed of all its vitality by court decision.

The theoretical limit is about i in 16; between I in 20 and 1 in 16 a steam locomotive depending on the adhesion between its wheels and the rails can only haul about its own weight.

The earliest arrangement of this kind was patented by John Blenkinsop, of the Middleton Colliery, near Leeds, in 1811, and an engine built on his plan by Mathew Murray, also of Leeds, began in 1812 to haul coals from Middleton to Leeds over a line 32 m.

Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood, a party, and called Rule 1 2, forbidding engineers to haul the freight, criminal.

Grades are made, whenever possible, in favour of the load, and of such degree that the power required to haul out the loaded cars shall be approximately equal to that for hauling back the empties, viz.

The 1 As early as 1613, Captain Samuel Argall, on his way to Virginia, after breaking up some Jesuit settlements at Port Royal, and Mount Desert, passed through the Narrows near the mouth of the Hudson, and finding a group of Dutch traders, made them haul down their flag and replace it with that of England.

He refused altogether to haul down the flag of Tariff Reform; it was his policy to give British workmen a preference, both in the home and in the colonial market; but he said that a Unionist Government did not intend themselves to impose food duties.

He just wants to haul her back to home and hearth, where she belongs.

Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

The Trident was CAAC's first western built short haul jet airliner.

The practice of using actual horse power to haul the trucks to the line died out with the introduction of the diesel engine.

Long haul flights for London Luton SWE, the Swedish airline launched its thrice weekly flights to Lahore, Pakistan in June.