Some dance, some haul the rope. --Denham.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
--Pope.
Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry
robust. --Thomson.
2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to
haul logs to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began
hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
--U. S. Grant.
{To haul over the coals}. See under {Coal}.
{To haul the wind} (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship
nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at
a haul.
3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by
hauling a net.
4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which
anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a
long haul or short haul.
5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to
be tarred.
I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an
island. --Cook.
2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
{To haul around} (Naut.), to shift to any point of the
compass; -- said of the wind.
{To haul off} (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order
to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to
draw back.