Haul Definition
- To move quickly:
We'll be late if you don't haul ass.
- to act, go, depart, etc. quickly or hurriedly
- to change a ship's course so as to draw away from something
- to retreat; withdraw
- to sail closer to the wind
- to come to rest; stop
- to sail closer to the wind
Origin of Haul
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From Middle English haulen, halen, halien (“to drag, fetch, compel, summon”), partly from Old English *halian, holian (“to haul, drag”); partly from Old French haler (“to pull, haul”), from Frankish *halōn (“to haul, drag, fetch”) or Old Dutch halen (“to haul, drag, fetch”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *hulōną, *halēną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel(a)-, *kala- (“to call, shout, sound”). Cognate with Eastern Frisian halia (“to get, fetch”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), German holen (“to get, fetch”), Danish hale (“to haul”), Swedish hala (“to haul, pull, tug, hale”). Related also to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English haulen from Old French haler of Germanic origin kelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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