Definition of haul

• v. t. - To pull or draw with force; to drag.
• v. t. - To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
• v. i. - To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
• v. t. - To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
• n. - A pulling with force; a violent pull.
• n. - A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
• n. - That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
• n. - Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
• n. - A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.