haul

Betekenis (English)

Verb

1. To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
2. To draw or pull something heavy.
3. To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
4. To drag, to pull, to tug.
5. Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
6. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
7. To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
8. Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
9. (colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).

Noun

1. An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
2. The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
3. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
4. Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
5. A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
6. Four goals scored by one player in a game.

Synonyms

drag

pull

draw

tug

tow

carry

transport

cart

convey

hale

draught

catch

loot

traction

heave

lug

transfer

twitch

take

haulage

ship

🚢

take away

agree with

booty

team

fire

🔥

trail

follow

transportation

freight

conform

go along with

drawl

remove

distance

comply with

shoot

extract

stretch

propel

pull back

pull out

pull up

pump

raise

rearrange

relocate

reposition

retract

scream

😱

shift

shout

spoils

straighten

swag

switch

teamster

towage

trailing

transit

transporting

truck

🚚

tugging

wind

wind up

withdraw

withdrawal

wrench

🔧

wrest

yank

haul in

stolen goods

stolen property

truck driver

transporter-erector-launcher

draw along

traction drive

withdrawment

tow target

towed target

lift sling here

transport movement

bear

🐻

carriage

carter

channel

chauffeur

conduct

conveying

delay

deliver

draft

drag along

draw back

draw in

drawing

draw off

draw out

dribble

drive

drive around

ferry

⛴️

fetch

fishing

🎣

get out

guide

hail

hauler

haulier

haul up

kedge

lead

lift

load

move

pass

piggyback

pitch

pluck

plunk

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hɔːl/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: hālen

Inherited from Old English: *halian

Cognate with Deens: hale

Cognate with Middle Dutch: halen

Cognate with Nederlands: halen

Cognate with Old Frisian: halia

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: halen

Cognate with Nederduits: halen

Cognate with Old High German: halôn

Cognate with Duits: holen

Cognate with Noors: hale

Cognate with Old Saxon: halôn

Cognate with Sweeds: hala

Cognate with Old English: ġeholian

In summary

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”).