Thesaurus: haul

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