Haul vs Swag - What's the difference?

Haul is a synonym of swag.

As nouns the difference between haul and swag

is that haul is a long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo while swag is scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass or swag can be .

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)

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.

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

Anagrams

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swag

English

Etymology 1

Probably from (etyl)

Verb

(swagg)

(intransitive, and, transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.

To droop; to sag.

* Palsgrave

I swag' as a fat person's belly ' swaggeth as he goeth.

To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 29, author=Cathy Horyn, title=In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown

Noun

(en noun)

A loop of draped fabric.

* 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:

He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.

A low point or depression in land; especially , a place where water collects.

* 1902', D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", ''The American Practitioner and News'', ' 34 : 182.

Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag' the water from the well in question would become muddy After the water in the ' swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

(swagger).

Noun

(-)

(slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.

* 2009 , Mark Anthony Archer, Exile , page 119

Now this dude got swag , and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!”

Etymology 3

From British thieves? slang.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) The booty of a burglar or thief; a boodle.

* 1838 , :

“It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag , is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’}}

* 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine , page 38

He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.

(uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.

* 2011 , Mark Henry, Battle of the Network Zombies

“Make sure to take some swag on your way out!” I called.
He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.

(countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.

(countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable in to an integral backpack.

(countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).

* 2010 August 31, " Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener]", [[w:The New Zealand Herald, The New Zealand Herald] :

New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.

Derived terms

* swaggie * swagman

Verb

(Australia) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).

* 1880 , James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia , page 259,

He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.

* 1976 , Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review , page 158,

That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.

* 2006 , , Issue 23, page 3,

The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging .

* 2011 , Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC , page 21,

Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.

Derived terms

* swag it

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.