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# haul

«haul» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pull or drag it with effort, because it is heavy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (haul, hauls, hauled, hauling); noun (a haul, hauls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To haul something means to pull or drag it with effort, because it is heavy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#m1)

2) (noun) A haul is an amount of something gained or caught, like fish in a net, stolen goods, or sweets at Halloween. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#m2)

3) (noun) A haul is a distance travelled: «a long haul». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#m3)

4) (verb, informal) To be hauled up or hauled in front of someone means to be made to go there to be told off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children talk about their «Halloween haul» of sweets; in sport, a player has a «haul» of goals or medals. In stories it shows effort: «They hauled the boat onto the beach». In transport, lorries haul goods. Phrases: «long haul», «haul up», «for the long haul», «haul of medals».

### examples

- We hauled the heavy bags up the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x1)
- The fishermen hauled in their nets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x2)
- My Halloween haul was 40 sweets! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x3)
- Police found a big haul of stolen phones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x4)
- Australia won a haul of gold medals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x5)
- It's a long haul flight to New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x6)
- He was hauled in front of the head teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x7)
- Then he jerked away at the rope and his brothers began to haul it up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: hauled. Homophone: «hall» (a big room or corridor) in many accents — haul and hall sound the same in UK English. «Long-haul» (with a hyphen before a noun) means a very long trip. «For the long haul» means for a long time.

### In the corpora

- [«A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank, and the Otter hauled himself out».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/15/)
- [The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «haul» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haul/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.