hauled English
Verb
(head)
(haul)
haul English
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.
Derived terms
* haulable
* haul down
Antonyms
* (to steer closer to the wind) veer
* (to shift aft) veer
Derived terms
* haulage
* hauler
* haulier
* long-haul
* longhauling
Noun
( en noun)
A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
- The robber's haul was over thirty items.
- The trawler landed a ten-ton haul .
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.
Collectively, all of the products bought on a shopping trip.
A haul video
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haled English
Verb
(head)
(hale)
Anagrams
*
hale English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( -)
(archaic) Health, welfare.
* Spenser
- All heedless of his dearest hale .
Etymology 2
Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .
Adjective
( er)
Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
* Jonathan Swift
- Last year we thought him strong and hale .
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
- "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
Antonyms
* unhale
Usage notes
* Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".
Etymology 3
From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).
Verb
( hal)
To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
* , II.6:
- For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
* 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :
- The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.
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- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
- They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.
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