haul
To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicleTo transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
» I'm in it for the long haul.
Я буду займатися цим до переможного кінця.
Я тут надовго.
Meaning
9 senses(transitive)To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
to haul logs to a sawmill
transport in a vehicle
(transitive)To draw or pull something heavy.
ziehen, schleppen
тяну́тьtjanútʹ, волочи́тьvoločítʹ
draw slowly or heavily
(transitive)To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
transportieren, befödern
тащи́тьtaščítʹ, букси́роватьbuksírovatʹ
(figuratively, transitive)To drag, to pull, to tug.
(figuratively, transitive)Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
(intransitive)To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(ambitransitive)To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
(intransitive)Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
(US, colloquial, intransitive)To haul ass (“go fast”).
“How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”
Examples
25 sentencesI'm in it for the long haul.
Я буду займатися цим до переможного кінця.
All this junk needs to be hauled away.
ruВесь этот хлам нужно вытащить отсюда.
The police have hauled in a suspect for questioning.
We're here for the long haul.
ruМы здесь надолго.
We're in for the long haul.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from OldFrom 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.
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Forms
hauls, hauling, hauled, hauledPhrasal verbs
6 phrasal verbs- haul upпідняти, дістатиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, up.
- haul offTo alter course so as to get farther away from an object.
- haul outTo come out of the water, in order to rest
- haul inTo force (a team) to stop scoring.
- haul downTo violently cause to fall to the ground.
- haul aroundTo shift to any point of the compass.
Synonyms
3 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
30 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle