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longhauls

longhauls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of longhaul.

Meaning of longhaul

Verb

longhaul (third-person singular simple present longhauls, present participle longhauling, simple past and past participle longhauled)

  1. (transitive) To travel a long distance.
    • Though they breed in the High Arctic summer, Arctic terns 'winter' south in the austral summer, thus living a life of perpetual summer and almost endless daylight in the classic example of 'globe-spanning'. […] Longhauling 22,000 miles a year they are the only northern breeding species which...2008 July, Tony Soper, “Arctic Tern: Sterna paradisaea”, in Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 5th edition, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, Ct.: The Globe Pequot...
  2. (transitive) To transport goods over long distances.
    • Q. What would the Denver & Rio Grande Western get if it hauled that same car from Salt Lake to Pueblo and longhauled it to Santa Fe on its own branch? / A. About 26 or 27 cents.1941, Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico: Hearings before a...

Forms of longhauls

alternative formlong-hauls

Questions about longhauls

What is longhauls the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Longhauls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of longhaul.

Words near longhauls in the dictionary

  1. longhaul
  2. longhauled
  3. longhauler
  4. longhaulers
  5. longhauling
  6. longhauls
  7. longhead
  8. longheaded
  9. longheadedly
  10. longheadedness
  11. longheads

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