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Grammar : Verb
Spell : hawl
Phonetic Transcription : hɔl

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Définition of hauled

Origin :
  • 1660s, "act of hauling," from haul (v.). Meaning "something gained" is from 1776, perhaps on notion of "drawing" a profit, or of the catch from hauling fishing nets. Meaning "distance over which something must be hauled" (usually with long or short) is attested from 1873.
  • verb move, pull to another spot
Example sentences :
  • Two ropes were then hauled on board the vessel, a larger and a smaller.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • We had hauled our manly tacks aboard, and had no thoughts of plunder.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • I hauled him in, and he told me, he thought, some one had hold of the other end of the sweep.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The strange brig had hauled up for us even before we got out the launch.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • At this sight, we hauled up close on a wind, it blowing very fresh.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • This squadron, which was nearest the Commander-in-Chief, obeyed and hauled off.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • Finally, he hauled up his watch from its depths, and said, 'Eleven.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • Then the caps were placed on rollers, and hauled up by gangs of men.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Would he be hauled out of the hollow tree and made a prisoner?
  • Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
  • The gang-plank was hauled in, and the Aurora swung out from the bank.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

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