Crossword clues for hauling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haul \Haul\ (h[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled (h[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire, get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol[=o]n, hal[=o]n, G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. Hale, v. t., Claim. Class, Council, Ecclesiastic.]
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To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Some dance, some haul the rope.
--Denham.Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
--Pope.Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
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To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
--U. S. Grant.To haul over the coals. See under Coal.
To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
Wiktionary
n. haulage vb. (present participle of haul English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Hauling is a 2010 documentary film on poor families who work as recyclers in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Usage examples of "hauling".
That seemed odd, since the Anointed himself was so grotesquely fat that the effort of hauling his own weight around left him with little strength for anything else.
Tremaine followed Giliead across the littered pavement to the doorway, Ilias hauling Balin along after her.
Instead of hauling hard up, as the race demanded and the Biter men expected, he spun the wheel to put her head to windward while his crew good, fast men despite their worn appearances -braced main and fore yards round at such a speed they went aback instantly, with a battery of explosive cracks.
Hauling the cases himself, Bugget fell in behind the rest as they marched up the paved road to the bottling plant.
One cruck frame had already been lashed together and Ravin was directing Frue and some others in hauling the bigger boar up by its hind legs.
It may be that the hauling away of these cymlings so injured the mule that he was no longer of service to the company.
Its controlling chains hung also from heavy gears upon an axle running across the ceiling, and the half-naked Deese wizards hauling thereon looked like toiling trolls in the flaring light.
The convenience of erecting girders on shore is very great, but there is some risk in the floating operations and a good deal of hauling plant is required.
The boys had had an extatic time the evening before, hauling in drift-wood.
There were ruffled grouse, angrily complaining about things, godwits making profane jokes, sandpipers playing little fifes on the beach, black rails lying in parallel rows on the ground, oven birds doing the morning baking, mourning doves sobbing uncontrollably, goshawks staring with amazement, a crane hauling up loads of stones, and several big old red barn owls filled with hay.
For two hours, Cyrus Harding and his companions were solely occupied in hauling up the spars on to the sand, and then in spreading the sails which were perfectly uninjured, to dry.
There was a hasty conference among the sailors as to what to do regarding the ship, and the Hierophant dispatched the maiden lole with instructions to bring the Illyrian-speaking Mezentius and a handful of fisherfolk from the village to aid in removing the injured men and hauling our damaged vessel ashore.
All across the Gulf of Kossuth, the urbrafts and seafactories were hauling keels west at whatever speed they could manage.
And while just about every forcer in the place clustered around the cordial crate enjoying my performance, the cargo laders for the port were passing the rest of my goods through the sniffer and hauling them over to the ship.
My arms were well muscled from years of hauling myself around while compensating for the lameness of my leg.