haul

English

/hɔːl/, /hɔl/, /hɑl/

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  • (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
  • (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  • (transitive) To drag, to pull, to tug.
  • (transitive) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  • (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  • (ambitransitive) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
  • (intransitive) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
  • (intransitive) To haul ass.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hālen derived from Old French haler (pull, haul) derived from Frankish *halōn (fetch, drag, haul) derived from Middle Dutch halen (haul, fetch, drag, draw) inherited from Old English *halian (drag, haul) inherited from Proto-Germanic *halōną (fetch) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (shout, call, cry, summon, lift, make noise, make a noise), *kelh₁- (shout, call, cry, summon, lift, make noise, make a noise).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kelh₁-

Gloss

shout, call, cry, summon, lift, make noise, make a noise

Concept
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