Haum vs Haul - What's the difference?
haum | haul |
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
* Alexander Pope
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
* Ulysses S. Grant
(nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
* Cook
(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.
A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
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
As nouns the difference between haum and haul
is that haum is (a stalk) while haul is a long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.As a verb haul is
to carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.haul
English
Verb
(en verb)- Some dance, some haul the rope.
- Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
- 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.
- I hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
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Derived terms
* haulable * haul downAntonyms
* (to steer closer to the wind) veer * (to shift aft) veerDerived terms
* haulage * hauler * haulier * long-haul * longhaulingNoun
(en noun)- The robber's haul was over thirty items.
- The trawler landed a ten-ton haul .