hauler

English

Noun

hauler (plural haulers)

1. A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
2. A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
3. A person or thing that hauls another person or thing.

Synonym

• cart
• trailer

Related terms

• haulee

References

• 1985, Thomas M. Paikeday, Noam Chomsky, The native speaker is dead!: an informal discussion of a linguistic myth^[1], Paikeday Pub.:

  Hauler, noun.
  "'Bizarre' and 'normal' remind me of the classic scenario of someone being hauled off to the insane asylum and an argument starts about who is insane and who is normal — hauler or haulee?"

• 1943, Captain M.E.W. North, Some artificial methods of tree-climbing^[2], The Ibis, Volume 85:

  Hauler, noun.
  "Then, holding myself in position by grasping the part of the rope that falls from the other side of the fork, I unclip the loop round the trunk and let it swing clear. Next, combining the roles of hauler and haulee, I climb up, hand over hand using irons as much as possible, until I am right under one of the dividing limbs of the fork."