HAUL

noun a pulling with force; a violent pull.

2. haul ·vt to pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

3. haul ·noun a bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

4. haul ·vt to pull or draw with force; to drag.

5. haul ·noun a single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

6. haul ·noun that which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

7. haul ·vi to change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. ·see under haul, ·vt.

8. haul ·vt to transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

9. haul ·noun transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.