Word Finder - hauling

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To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.

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to haul logs to a sawmill

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To draw or pull something heavy.

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To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

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To drag, to pull, to tug.

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Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.

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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

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To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.

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Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).

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To haul ass.

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“How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”

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Haulage

I might as well start hauling this stuff.

Try hauling those off.

He would also ferry them back when the auction was finished, hauling home the spoils of the sale.

He did say the guy is camping—he was hauling a tent and stuff.

He shone a light in her face before hauling her to her feet.

Sasha shouted, snatching her arm and hauling her up.

Some other couple came in just before we left, hauling bags and all.

He staggered, and she snatched his wrist, hauling herself up.

Hauling her to the bed, he shook out a pillow from its case and draped the case over her head like a hood.

To the extent this world is a meritocracy, the most talented will be the movie star and the least talented will be hauling manure.

A blue haired old lady with a walker and her mate hauling an oxygen tank looked at me as If I was the Boston strangler.

He signaled to the other insurgent, who obeyed and moved forward, grabbing the dead man's ankles and hauling him out.

She turned to see him hauling a garbage bag.

Relieved, he pulled the blowing horse to a halt and grabbed Rissa by the scruff of her tunic, unceremoniously hauling her up and dumping her on the ground.

He sought a distraction to keep him from wrenching open the door and hauling the small queen away from her second.

The man from the beach who struck down his father strode from the stables, accompanied by another man hauling Vara by one arm. ..

In the main roads to the pit when the distance is not considerable horse traction may be used, a train of 6 to i 5 vehicles being drawn by one horse, but more generally the hauling or, as it is called in the north of England, the leading of the trains of tubs is effected by mechanical traction.

The convenience of erecting girders on shore is very great, but there is some risk in the floating operations and a good deal of hauling plant is required.

He did say the guy is camping—he was hauling a tent and stuff.

First, it would be tempting to assume the person hauling manure can only do that, and if that job disappeared he would have no useful skills.

They started hauling out the booze and I don't want to do anything to screw up a scholarship—especially now.

The harbour of Port Blair is well supplied with buoys and harbour lights, and is crossed by ferries at fixed intervals, while there are several launches for hauling local traffic. On Ross Island there is a lighthouse visible for 19 m.

An endeavour is made so to plan the works of a railway that the quantity of earth excavated in cuttings shall be equal to the quantity required for the embankments; but this is not always practicable, and it is sometimes advantageous to obtain the earth from some source close to the embankment rather than incur the expense of hauling it from a distant cutting.

Grades are made, whenever possible, in favour of the load, and of such degree that the power required to haul out the loaded cars shall be approximately equal to that for hauling back the empties, viz.

The older, devised by Hooke in 1667, is provided with valves above and below, both opening upward, through which the water passes freely during descent, but which are closed by some device on hauling up. The newer or slip water-bottle type consists of a cylinder allowed to drop on to a base-plate when a sample is tro be collected.

Water-pressure engines, driven by a column of water equal to the depth of the pit, have also been employed for hauling.

The railways of the north-west have a monopoly of the business of hauling wheat, with the result that it costs 20 cents to ship a bushel of wheat from the Dakota field to Duluth, which is as much as it costs to forward it from Duluth to Liverpool.

There'd be no point in hauling excess baggage half-way across the country in the limited space of a motor home.

The shadow world…she staggered and floated through it, hauling him with her toward a pulsing portal that grew blurry fast.

Clouds from the retreating storm looked like a triumphant army, hauling away its ordinance for another engagement—with only white-gray stragglers tagging behind.

They started hauling out the booze and I don't want to do anything to screw up a scholarship—especially now.

The packed emergency area waiting room held a disreputable collection of weeping women, stoned teenagers and dirty dere­licts, all talking at the same time over the background music of a near-constant scream of sirens hauling in more Saturday night vic­tims.

I briefly contemplated hauling them out of the house before opening their presents, but it really would not have been fair.

The head-line beckets are the first to be explained, as these play a big part in the operation of hauling the trawl.

The raiders overran the Royalist gun emplacements and succeeded in hauling off several great siege cannon.

We rushed out of the shop in time to see four diesel locomotives hauling an enormous line of wagons to the East.

Sometime Wayward Sons roadie, Russell ' Dingle ' Byrne leaned his brick outhouse frame to hauling their PA for her.

All this whilst hauling a demonstration rake of coaches is a real test.

Load Hauling From Base Camp to 14,300 feet you will use a sled and your pack to move all food and equipment.

W and down dip from the junction with the hauling level leads to a flooded stope, Blue Lake.

The 4013 is well suited for utility trailers and adult tricycles where hauling heavy loads is needed.

The Thompson Puma is a double capstan winch used for hauling and lifting.

It was suitable for hauling loads from five to eight tons or for driving a small thrashing machine.

Before you know it, you'll be hauling your little darlings all over the place!

On the other hand, larger means hauling more stuff around, probably more than you really need.

For instance, there are sleds designed exclusively for touring, for driving along trails, for driving through mountains, for performance, for hauling and for a host of other duties.

These cost a bit more to set up and come with various usage fees, but if it's a commonly recurring gift situation, it can be significantly more convenient -- and cheaper -- than hauling boxes to the local UPS store.

If you plan to use your compost to fertilize a garden, make sure it is located close enough that you don't spend hours hauling compost across your yard.

At the same time, however, carrying around a camera in your pocket is pretty convenient, and the idea of hauling around a camera in a large case was something many photographers were resistant to.

Outdoors, capture dad and the kids hauling the tree through a snowy field, or photograph the family's tree-trimming festivities indoors.