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HAUL
- to pull with force [v HAULED, HAULING, HAULS]
- to pull with force
- to transport
- act of hauling
- the load hauled
- the distance over which something is hauled
- to brace (certain yards of a sailing vessel)
- to get a move on; hurry
- to approach
- to change a ship's course so as to get farther off from an object
- to withdraw; leave
- to draw back the arm in order to strike; prepare to deal a blow
- (of the wind) to change in a clockwise direction
- to bring before a superior for judgment or reprimand; call to account
- to come to a halt; stop
- to change the course of (a sailing vessel) so as to sail closer to the wind
- (of a sailing vessel) to come closer to the wind
- (of a vessel) to come to a halt