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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Haul \Haul\ (h[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hauled} (h[add]ld);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Hauling}.] [OE. halen, halien, F. haler, of
     German or Scand. origin; akin to AS. geholian to acquire,
     get, D. halen to fetch, pull, draw, OHG. hol[=o]n, hal[=o]n,
     G. holen, Dan. hale to haul, Sw. hala, and to L. calare to
     call, summon, Gr. kalei^n to call. Cf. {Hale}, v. t.,
     {Claim}. {Class}, {Council}, {Ecclesiastic}.]
     1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
  
              Some dance, some haul the rope.       --Denham.
  
              Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
                                                    --Pope.
  
              Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry
              robust.                               --Thomson.
  
     2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to
        haul logs to a sawmill.
  
              When I was seven or eight years of age, I began
              hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
                                                    --U. S. Grant.
  
     {To haul over the coals}. See under {Coal}.
  
     {To haul the wind} (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship
        nearer to the point from which the wind blows.

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