Word Definition

Haul

  1. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  2. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
  3. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
  4. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
  5. A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
  6. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
  7. To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
  8. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
  9. To pull or draw with force; to drag.