Verb

(head)

(haul)

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.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The 26-year-old has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.}}

To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

Verb

(head)

(trail)

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).

(label) To drag (something) behind on the ground.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.

(label) To leave (a trail of).

(label) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.

To be losing, to be behind in a competition.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 29, author=Keith Jackson, work=Daily Record

, title= SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , passage=Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.}}

(label) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.

(Longfellow)

(label) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.

* (1816-1855)

I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.