hauling

Verb

haul (third-person singular simple present hauls, present participle hauling, simple past and past participle hauled)

1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
   • to haul logs to a sawmill
2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
   • Thither they bent, and haul'd their ſhip to land, / (The crooked keel divides the yellow ſand) / Ulyſſes ſleeping on his couch they bore, / And gently plac'd him on the rocky ſhore.1725, Homer, “Book XIII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 194, lines 136–139
3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
   • The California fruit trade is all handled by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads. The last named road operates its own refrigerator cars and fixes its own rates. It hauls fully half of the traffic and it is therefore evident that the "Beef Trust" has no voice or power in the matter. […]...1905 February 4, “Why Not Tell the Truth?”, in W. M. Camp, editor, The Railway and Engineering Review, volume XLV, number 5, Chicago, Ill.: Railway Review Inc. […], →OCLC, page 73, column 1
4. (figuratively, transitive) To drag, to pull, to tug.
   • The 26-year-old [Papiss Cissé] has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2018
5. (figuratively, transitive) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
   • Well, it is impossible to carry stock by train or steamer without causing some pain or suffering, and to be hauled up before a Justice of the Peace […] without a warrant because somebody thinks you have caused unnecessary pain seems to me to be an outrageous proceeding. […] [T]o enact a Draconian...1908 August 6, William Herbert Herries, “Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Fourth Session, Sixteenth Parliament (House of Representatives), volume 144...
6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

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