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Webster 1913 Edition

Haul

Haul

(ha̤l)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hauled
(ha̤ld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hauling
.]
[OE.
halen
,
halien
, F.
haler
, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS.
geholian
to acquire, get, D.
halen
to fetch, pull, draw, OHG.
holōn
,
halōn
, G.
holen
, Dan.
hale
to haul, Sw.
hala
, and to L.
calare
to call, summon, Gr.
καλεῖν
to call. Cf.
Hale
,
Verb.
T.
,
Claim
.
Class
,
Council
,
Ecclesiastic
.]
1.
To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Some dance, some
haul
the rope.
Denham.
Thither they bent, and
hauled
their ships to land.
Pope.
Romp-loving miss
Is
hauled
about in gallantry robust.
Thomson.
2.
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen;
as, to
haul
logs to a sawmill
.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began
hauling
all the wood used in the house and shops.
U. S. Grant.
To haul over the coals
.
See under
Coal
.
–
To haul the wind
(Naut.)
,
to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.

Haul

,
Verb.
I.
1.
(Naut.)
To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under
Haul
,
Verb.
T.
I . . .
hauled
up for it, and found it to be an island.
Cook.
2.
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
To haul around
(Naut.)
,
to shift to any point of the compass; – said of the wind.
–
To haul off
(Naut.)
,
to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.

Haul

,
Noun.
1.
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
2.
A single draught of a net;
as, to catch a hundred fish at a
haul
.
3.
That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
4.
Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car;
as, a long
haul
or short
haul
.
5.
(Rope Making)
A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

Webster 1828 Edition

Haul

HAUL

, v.t.
1.
To pull or draw with force; to drag; as, to haul a heavy body along on the ground; to haul a boat on shore. Haul is equivalent to drag, and differs sometimes from pull and draw, in expressing more force and labor. It is much used by seamen; as, to haul down the sails; haul in the boom; haul aft, &c.
2.
To drag; to compel to go.
Lest he haul thee to the judge. Luke 12.
When applied to persons, haul implies compulsion or rudeness, or both.
To haul the wind, in seamanship, is to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows, by arranging the sails more obliquely, bracing the yards more forward, hauling the sheets more aft, &c.

HAUL

,
Noun.
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
1.
A draft of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

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