Meaning

5 senses
  1. An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.

    the act of drawing or hauling something

  2. The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.

    Getting to his place was a real haul.

    I find long-haul travel by airplane tiring.

    Streckenzurücklegung, Transportweg

    перево́зкаperevózka, волоче́ниеvoločénije

  3. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

    The robber’s haul was over thirty items.

    The trawler landed a ten-ton haul.

    Fischzug, Fang, Beute

    уло́вulóv, заку́пкаzakúpka

  4. A bundle of many threads to be tarred.

  5. (UK)Four goals scored by one player in a game.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. I'm in it for the long haul.

    Я буду займатися цим до переможного кінця. — deniko

  2. All this junk needs to be hauled away.

    ruВесь этот хлам нужно вытащить отсюда. — Selena777

  3. The police have hauled in a suspect for questioning.

  4. We're here for the long haul.

    ruМы здесь надолго. — xmoffx

  5. We're in for the long haul.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long:
amount of something taken:
specifically: all of the items purchased on a shopping trip:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long:
amount of something taken:
specifically: all of the items purchased on a shopping trip:

Origin

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old

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.

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Forms

plural: hauls
Singularhaul
Pluralhauls

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
amount of illegal loot taken:booty
Close in meaning
  • the act of drawing or hauling something:drawhaulage
  • the quantity that was caught:catch

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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