Verb

(en verb)

To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

To pull or draw something heavy.

* Denham

Some dance, some haul the rope.

* Alexander Pope

Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.

to haul logs to a sawmill

* Ulysses S. Grant

When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.

(nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.

* Cook

I hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.

(nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).

(figuratively) To pull.

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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

Verb

To throw (something) with force.

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* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5

Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.

To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.

The gangs hurled abuse at each other.

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, year=1984 , title=New International Version of the Bible , section=Mark 15:29-30 , passage=Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"}}

To participate in the sport of hurling.

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(slang) To vomit.

Pass me the bucket; I've got to hurl .

(obsolete) To twist or turn.

* Hooker

hurled or crooked feet