Haul

·noun A pulling with force; a violent pull.

II. Haul ·vt To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

III. Haul ·noun A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

IV. Haul ·vt To pull or draw with force; to Drag.

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

VI. Haul ·noun That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

VII. Haul ·vi To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. ·see under Haul, ·vt.

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

IX. 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.