Verb

(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (rfex)

To overpower; to subdue.

* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 16,

She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.

To force, constrain or coerce.

Logic compels''' the wise, while fools feel '''compelled by emotions.

* 1600 , , Julius Caesar , act 5, sc. 1,

Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.

* Hallam

Wolsey compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.

To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.

* Shakespeare

Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.

* 1912 , , Sky Island , ch. 14,

The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.

(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

* Dryden

Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .

* Tennyson

I compel all creatures to my will.

(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

* Dryden

in one troop compelled

(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

* Spenser

She had this knight from far compelled .

(Chapman)

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.