haulverb [ T ]
uk/hɔːl/us/hɑːl/C2 to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty:
They hauled the boat out of the water.
She hauled herself up into the tree.
to take something or someone somewhere, especially by force:
FBI agents hauled away boxes of records.
The police hauled him off to jail in front of his whole family.
More examples
- He hauled himself over the wall, grunting with the effort.
- A freight train can haul thousands of tons of goods.
- The fishermen were hauling the nets in at the back of the boat.
- It took three men to haul the roller across the pitch.
- We had to haul the wardrobe up three flights of stairs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Pulling
- draft
- drag
- draught
- draw sth up
- heave
- heave-ho
- heft
- hitch
- hitch sth up
- pluck
- pluck at sth
- reel
- reel sth in/out
- retract
- suck
- tow
- tow-away
- traction
- tweak
- yank
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Idiom(s)
haul ass
Phrasal verb(s)
haul sb up
haulnoun [ C ]
uk/hɔːl/us/hɑːl/haul noun [ C ] (AMOUNT)
C2 a usually large amount of something that has been stolen or is illegal:
a haul of arms/drugs
all the things someone buys on an occasion when they go shopping:
Check out the Ucinek family shopping haul.
I saw those gloves in a haul video.
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
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haul noun [ C ] (FISH)
the amount of fish caught:
Fishermen have been complaining of poor hauls all year.
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General words for size and amount
- -sized
- a whole lot idiom
- amount
- bulk
- content
- count
- degree
- element
- flow
- load
- number
- part
- quantity
- quota
- ration
- scale
- size
- small-scale
- strength
- take
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haul noun [ C ] (JOURNEY)
a journey, often a difficult one:
From there it was a long haul/only a short haul back to our camp.
See also
long-haul
short-haul
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Journeys
- adventure
- break-journey
- carpool
- carsick
- convoy
- foray
- grand tour
- journey
- mystery tour
- odyssey
- outward-bound
- peregrination
- pilgrimage
- ride
- round trip
- sail
- short-haul
- the long haul idiom
- travelling
- trip
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Idiom(s)
the long haul