Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Haul \Haul\, n.
   1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.

   2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at
      a haul.

   3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by
      hauling a net.

   4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which
      anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a
      long haul or short haul.

   5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to
      be tarred.

Haul \Haul\, v. i.
   1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the
      wind. See under {Haul}, v. t.

            I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an
            island.                               --Cook.

   2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

   {To haul around} (Naut.), to shift to any point of the
      compass; -- said of the wind.

   {To haul off} (Naut.), to sail closer to the wind, in order
      to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to
      draw back.

Source : WordNet®

haul
     v 1: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: {hale},
           {cart}, {drag}]
     2: transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a
        truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"

haul
     n 1: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the
          hill went very slowly" [syn: {draw}, {haulage}]
     2: the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
        [syn: {catch}]