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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Haul \Haul\ (h[add]l), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hauled} (h[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hauling}.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol[=o]n, hal[=o]n, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. {Hale}, verb (used with an object), {Claim}. {Class}, {Council}, {Ecclesiastic}.]
1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Some dance, some haul the rope. --Denham.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land. --Pope.
Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. --Thomson.
2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. --U. S. Grant.
{To haul over the coals}. See under {Coal}.
{To haul the wind} (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hauling
noun: the activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: {trucking}, {truckage}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "hauling": air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, attraction, bearing, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance, draft, drawing, drayage, expressage, extraction, ferriage, freight, freightage, haulage, heaving, lighterage, lugging, packing, portage, porterage, pull, pulling, pulling power, railway express, shipment, shipping, telpherage, toting, towage, towing, traction, tractive, tractive power, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, tug-of-war, tugging, waft, waftage, wagonage
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