haul

English

Etymology

From Middle English halen, halien (“to drag, fetch, compel, summon”), partly from Old English *halian, ġeholian (“to get, obtain”); partly from Old French haler (“to pull, haul”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *halōn (“to haul, drag, fetch”), Old Dutch halen (“to haul, drag, fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *halōnan, *haljanan, *hulōnan (“to call, fetch, summon”), from a conflation of Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”) and Proto-Indo-European *(s)kale-, *klā-, *klē- (“to shout, call”). Cognate with Old Frisian halia (“to get, drive home, take”), Old Saxon geholian, halōn (“to get”), Old High German halōn, holōn (German holen, “to get, fetch”), Latin celer (“swift”), Latin calo (“I call, summon”). Related to Old English healdan (“to grasp, hold, retain”). More at accelerate, claim, hold.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /hɔːl/, SAMPA: "/hO:l/
• (US) IPA: /hɔl/, SAMPA: "/hOl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /hɑl/, SAMPA: "/hAl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophones: hall

Noun

haul (plural hauls)

1. A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
2. An amount of something that has been taken.
   1. esp. illegally, The robbers haul was over thirty items.
   2. esp. numbers of fish caught, The trawler landed a 10 ton haul.

Translations

A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo

German: Fischzug (de) m. Polish: holowanie n., wleczenie n.

Russian: перевозка (ru) f., волочение (ru) n. Volapük: löpiotir fitafiläta (vo)

An amount of something taken

Russian: улов (ru) m.

Verb

haul (third-person singular simple present hauls, present participle hauling, simple past and past participle hauled)

1. To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
2. To pull or draw something heavy.
3. (nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
4. (nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).

Derived terms

• haulable
• haul down

Antonyms

• (to steer closer to the wind): veer
• (to shift aft): veer

Translations

to transport something heavy

Finnish: rahdata (fi) French: trainer (fr) Polish: transportować, wlec

Russian: тащить (ru) Spanish: llevar (es)

to pull something heavy

Finnish: haalata (fi) French: haler (fr) Polish: ciągnąć (pl)

Russian: тянуть (ru) Scottish Gaelic: slaod (gd) Spanish: empujar (es), tirar fuerte (es)

to steer closer to the wind

Finnish: nostaa (fi) (tuuleen), luuvata (fi)

Polish: ostrzyć, wyostrzyć

to shift fore

Finnish: kääntyä (fi) vastaiseen

Derived terms

• haulage
• hauler
• haulier
• long-haul
• longhauling

Anagrams

• hula

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh heul, from Proto-Celtic *sāwol (compare Cornish howl, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA: haɨl

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Noun

haul m. (plural heuliau) 

1. sun