US /hɔl/ UK /hɔːl/
verb noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to pull or drag with effort, or a quantity acquired or transported

    They had to haul the heavy crates up three flights of stairs.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to pull or drag with... pulldragtugtowlugcart
Opposites
Word family
Derived forms hauledhaulerhaulinghaulage
Related forms hale

Etymology

From Middle English halen ('to drag, pull'), a variant influenced by Old French haler ('to haul'), itself from Frankish *halon ('to fetch'), of Germanic origin.

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