\Haul\ (h[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hauled} (h[add]ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Hauling}.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of
German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire,
get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol[=o]n, hal[=o]n,
G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to
call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. {Hale}, v. t.,
{Claim}. {Class}, {Council}, {Ecclesiastic}.]
1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
         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.

\Haul\, v. i.
1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the
   wind. See under {Haul}, v. t.
         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.

\Haul\, n.
1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
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.