haul

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To drag, to pull, to tug.
5. (figuratively, transitive) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
7. (ambitransitive) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
8. (intransitive) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
9. (US, colloquial, intransitive) 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. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of 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. (British) Four goals scored by one player in a game.

Opposite of

veer

Synonyms

drag

pull

draw

tug

tow

carry

transport

cart

convey

draught

hale

catch

loot

take away

twitch

heave

haulage

traction

lug

take

ship

🚢

transfer

booty

drawl

conform

comply with

trail

team

go along with

transportation

agree with

fire

🔥

shoot

stretch

remove

distance

follow

freight

extract

drive

dribble

draw out

draw off

conveying

drawing

kedge

draw in

haul up

draw back

conduct

Translations

tirer

trekken

ziehen

tirare

haler

trainare

schleppen

çekmek

τραβώ

tirar

tirar

acarrear

transportieren

butin

trascinare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɔːl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hālen

Inherited from Old English: *halian

Cognate with Danish: hale

Cognate with Middle Dutch: halen

Cognate with Dutch: halen

Cognate with Old Frisian: halia

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: halen

Cognate with Low German: halen

Cognate with Old High German: halôn

Cognate with German: holen

Cognate with Norwegian: hale

Cognate with Old Saxon: halôn

Cognate with Swedish: 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”).