How do you use the word "haul" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "haul": Please haul on the rope. We gotta haul tits!

Haul Meaning

/hɔːl/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.

verbTo draw or pull something heavy.

Sentence Examples

Please haul on the rope.

We gotta haul tits!

Tom and Mary are in this for the long haul.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

draw catch drag

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Fishermen often ____ a heavy net full of fish onto the boat.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The truck driver had to ____ a heavy load of timber across the steep mountain pass.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at the time, but I could drive [the horses], and the choppers would load, and some one at the house unload." — 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, “Ancestry—Birth—Boyhood”, in Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. In Two Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 26:

"Thither they bent, and haul'd their ſhip to land, / (The crooked keel divides the yellow ſand) / Ulyſſes ſleeping on his couch they bore, / And gently plac'd him on the rocky ſhore." — 1725, Homer, “Book XIII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 194, lines 136–139:

"A spacious breach we make, and Troy's proud wall, / Built by the gods, by her own hands doth fall; / Thus all their help to their own ruin give, / Some draw with cords and some the monster drive / With rolls and levers: thus our works it climbs, / Big with our fate; the youth with songs and rhimes, / Some dance, some haul the rope; at last let down / It enters with a thundering noise the town, / Oh Troy, the seat of gods, in war renown'd!" — 1810, John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy. An Essay on the Second Book of Virgil’s Æneis. Written in the Year 1636.”, in Alexander Chalmers, edited by Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; […] In Twenty-one Volumes, volume VII (Cowley, Denham, Milton), London: Printed [by C[harles] Whittingham] for J[oseph] Johnson [et al.], →OCLC, page 240:

"Passing through the entrance of the harbour, the admiral proceeds to manœuvre his flet, to the great gratification of the host of spectators, […] [H]e hoists Dutch colours and fires two guns. This is the signal for a general chase after an imaginary enemy, a chase which continues till he hauls down his flag and fires another gun." — 1912, A. Rogers, “Yachting”, in The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games: In Four Volumes, The Sportsman edition, volumes IV (Rackets–Zebra), London: [The Sportsman?], →OCLC, page 357, column 2:

"The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared." — 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:

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