manhaul
manhaul verb: to pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.
Verb
manhaul (third-person singular simple present manhauls, present participle manhauling, simple past and past participle manhauled)
- To pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.
- He would die in the Arctic, but in 1908 he manhauled to the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson and Edgeworth David, and on the way they camped near our spot.1996, Sara Wheeler, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 139
- With agile topmen at the summit of the towering mast tending the sheaves of the blocks, it needed the humble laborers to manhaul ropes, seized to a girt-line, up the entire height of the mainmast.2001, Julian Stockwin, Kydd, Scribner, →ISBN, page 73
Noun
manhaul (countable and uncountable, plural manhauls)
- The act or practice of pulling sledges, trucks, etc. by human power, unaided by animals or machines.
- Australians, for whom Mawson is a national hero, might have heard of his solo trek to survival in 1913, but few would know that he and another Australian, Edgeworth David, with a lone Briton, were the first men to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, and that they did it by the longest...2006, Granville Allen Mawen, South by Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 2
- Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.2012, Captain R. F. Scott, The Last Expedition
- A sledge, travois, etc. that is pulled by human power, along with the cargo it is carrying.
- After Jim had secured his load, he moved off and must have been a quarter of a mile ahead before Ralph and I set off with the manhaul in tow.2021, Brian J Taylor, Tales from Bluebell Cottage
- A truck with two long benches in the back (oriented the long way) for people to sit on, or any similar utilitarian vehicle designed to carry many people.
- During this period of rehabilitation, personnel had to be hauled over the 12 miles from the old quarters to the new in box-type manhauls that were forever breaking down.1954 January, CDR J. L. Dowd, CEC, USN, “Something from Nothing”, in U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin, volume 8, number 1, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps: Bureau of Yards and Docks...
- In many countries commercial bus service is infrequent and the vehicles are small. They haul animals and freight as well as people. The buses are always crowded with people perched on every square foot of the bus and sometimes hanging from windows by their fingers. Since that is the custom, they...1960 July, Robert L. Jenkins, “Habits, Customs, Beliefs of Native Labor on Overseas Construction Concern Army, Air Force, Navy Engineers”, in The Navy Civil Engineer, United States Navy Civil...
- A meal.
- During his years at SRF, Kooch never missed the manhauls (meals) at 1100 and 1600. […] Through the years as his hearing got bad, Kooch would not hear the Whistle. Since then, manhauls were delayed until he was found and ushered aboard.1998, Dirk Anthony Ballendorf, editor, U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility: Guam History Book: 1945 to 1997, United States Department of Defense, page 54
Examples of manhaul in a sentence
- I have fallen into yawning crevasses hundreds of miles from the nearest human, I have manhauled sledge loads, for a thousand miles and more, that were 100 lbs heavier than those of Shackleton's men.2014, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, “Foreword”, in Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance...
- That night I asked Ginny to get this manhaul equipment to us the next day in the Twin Otter.2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth:
- Since that is the custom, they swarm over a manhaul vehicle the same way.1960 July, Robert L. Jenkins, “Habits, Customs, Beliefs of Native Labor on Overseas Construction Concern Army, Air Force, Navy Engineers”...
- "Ray, get a manhaul, pull in here right at the door.1971, Asian Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs, volumes 3–4, Cultural and Social Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region...
Forms of manhaul
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | manhauls |
| present participle | manhauling |
| past participle | manhauled |
| past | manhauled |
| alternative form | man-haul |
| Noun | |
| plural | manhauls |
Origin of manhaul
From man + haul.
Questions about manhaul
- What does manhaul mean?
- Manhaul means to pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.
- How do you use manhaul in a sentence?
- I have fallen into yawning crevasses hundreds of miles from the nearest human, I have manhauled sledge loads, for a thousand miles and more, that were 100 lbs heavier than those of Shackleton's men.
- What part of speech is manhaul?
- Manhaul can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of manhaul?
- The past tense of manhaul is manhauled.
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