Haul

To pull or draw with force; to drag.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.

To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

A pulling with force; a violent pull.

A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.