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# hauling

«hauling» in Mova's school dictionary: **Pulling or dragging something heavy with effort** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb, -ing form of haul (haul, hauls, hauled, hauling); noun (hauling — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pulling or dragging something heavy with effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#m1)

2) Carrying goods by lorry or truck from place to place; hauling as a noun is this job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#m2)

3) (informal) Taking someone somewhere they do not want to go: hauling them off to the dentist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science (forces, pulling) and in stories of fishermen, sailors and builders; in adult life, trucking jobs. Phrases: hauling in the nets, hauling up, long-distance hauling.

### examples

- The fishermen were hauling in their nets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x1)
- We were hauling the heavy box up the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x2)
- The truck is hauling logs to the sawmill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x3)
- Horses were used for hauling carts long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x4)
- Mum is hauling us off to see Aunt Jean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x5)
- Hauling a sledge uphill is hard work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x6)
- One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hauling/#x7)

### note

Base verb haul; past hauled. Homophone trap: haul sounds like hall. Haul as a noun also means a lot of stolen or caught things: a big haul of fish.

### Trees and pragmatics

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