Need another word that means the same as “haul”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “haul” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Haul” are: cart, drag, hale, pull, tug, heave, hump, trail, draw, tow, manhandle, transport, convey, carry, ship, ferry, move, shift, take, catch, haulage, booty, loot, plunder
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “haul” as a noun can have the following definitions:
catch | Anything that is caught especially if it is worth catching. There s a catch in it somewhere. |
draw | An act of drawing on a cigarette or cigar. The draw has been made for this year s tournament. |
haulage | A charge for the commercial transport of goods. Road haulage. |
loot | Money. Ten thousand quid is a lot of loot. |
plunder | The violent and dishonest acquisition of property. The army sacked the city and carried off huge quantities of plunder. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “haul” as a verb can have the following definitions:
carry | Persuade (others) to support one’s policy. The product does not carry the swallow symbol. |
cart | Transport something in a cart. They were carted off to the nearest police station. |
convey | Transfer the title to (property. It s impossible to convey how lost I felt. |
drag | Catch hold of and pull (something. My girlfriend is dragging me off to Rhodes for a week. |
draw | Engage in drawing. I draw a line here. |
ferry | Travel by ferry. Ambulances ferried the injured to hospital. |
hale | To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means. |
heave | Lift or elevate. My stomach heaved. |
manhandle | Handle (someone) roughly by dragging or pushing. Men used to manhandle the piano down the stairs. |
move | Have a turn make one s move in a game. She intends to move an amendment to the Bill. |
pull | Bring take or pull out of a container or from under a cover. The ad pulled in many potential customers. |
shift | Make a shift in or exchange of. She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case. |
ship | Hire for work on a ship. Jack you shipped with the Admiral once didn t you. |
take | Be designed to hold or take. Take an aspirin and lie down. |
tow | Of a motor vehicle or boat pull another vehicle or boat along with a rope chain or tow bar. A man called to tow the car away. |
trail | Apply (slip) through a nozzle or spout to decorate ceramic ware. The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart. |
transport | Transport commercially. The bulk of freight traffic was transported by lorry. |
tug | Tow a vessel with a tug. The prisoner tugged at the chains. |
anchorage | An area off the coast which is suitable for a ship to anchor. The plant needs firm anchorage. |
astern | (of a ship or an airplane) behind. We dropped her astern on the end of a seven inch manilla and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide. |
barge | Convey freight by barge. Just barge the other skater off the ball. |
bring | Go or come after and bring or take back. I ll give you an aspirin to bring down your temperature. |
bullock | Castrated bull. People have dropped dead bullocking their guts out. |
cart | Convey or put in a cart or similar vehicle. My mother carted us around from one activity to another. |
collier | A ship carrying coal. |
drag | A hunt using a drag lure. The drag of the current. |
dredge | Bring up or clear something from a river harbour or other area of water with a dredge. The lower stretch of the river had been dredged. |
drone | A musical instrument or part of one sounding a continuous note of low pitch in particular also drone pipe a pipe in a bagpipe or also drone string a string in an instrument such as a hurdy gurdy or a sitar. Only twenty minutes of the hour long drone had passed. |
elicit | Evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone. I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna. |
galley | A printer’s proof in the form of long single-column strips, not in sheets or pages. |
gravitational | Denoting a forceful attraction or movement towards something. The gravitational field of the comet is very weak. |
handled | Having a handle or handles, especially of a specified type or number. A two handled cup. |
haulage | The act of drawing or hauling something. Road haulage. |
lifeboat | A specially constructed boat launched from land to rescue people in distress at sea. |
ox | Used in names of wild animals related to or resembling a domesticated ox e g musk ox. Laden wagons pulled by lowing oxen travel down to the coast. |
pull | In sport a pulling stroke. I pulled up some onions. |
rend | Wrench (something) violently. Snapping teeth that would rend human flesh to shreds. |
straighten | Straighten by unrolling. Straighten hair. |
tow | An act of towing a vehicle or boat. A man called to tow the car away. |
trail | A trailer for a film or broadcast. Her voice trailed away. |
trigger | Release or pull the trigger on. The trigger for the strike was the closure of a mine. |
truck | Convey goods etc by truck. My mate walked confidently behind them and trucked on through. |
tug | Tow a ship by means of a tugboat. She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts. |
tumbrel | A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution. |
tweak | Pull or pull out sharply. No tweaks were required. |
unplug | Pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable. A procedure to unplug blocked arteries. |
wheel | An instance of wheeling a turn or rotation. The stars wheeled through the sky. |
wrest | Take (something, especially power or control) after considerable effort or difficulty. Wrest power from the old government. |
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