haul

Signification (Anglais)

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”).

drag

pull

comply with

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

drag along

drive around

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hɔːl/

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”).