haul
Because it is a word with a single syllable, haul is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofhaul
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
Example: "Getting to his place was a real haul."
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
Example: "The robber’s haul was over thirty items."
- Short for haul video.
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
Example: "to haul logs to a sawmill"
- To draw or pull something heavy.
- To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- To drag, to pull, to tug.
- Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- To haul ass.
Example: "“How fast was he goin’?” / “I don’t know exactly, but he must’ve been haulin’, given where he landed.”"
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