haul

haul is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pull or draw with force; to drag. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
2. transitive verb. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
3. intransitive verb. To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
4. transitive verb. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
5. noun. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
6. noun. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
7. noun. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
8. noun. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
9. noun. A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
10. noun. the act of drawing or hauling something

    "the haul up the hill went very slowly"

    Synonyms: draw, haulage

11. noun. the quantity that was caught

    "the catch was only 10 fish"

    Synonyms: catch

12. verb. transport in a vehicle

    "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"

    "haul vegetables to the market"

13. verb. draw slowly or heavily

    "haul stones"

    "haul nets"

    Synonyms: cart, drag, hale

Synonyms

draw, haulage, catch, cart, drag, hale

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in haul:

hula, lahu

Common word forms

hauls, hauled, hauler, hauling

Words from these letters

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