haul
part of speech
verb (haul, hauls, hauled, hauling); noun (a haul, hauls)
meaning for a pupil
1) To haul something means to pull or drag it with effort, because it is heavy. tree →
2) (noun) A haul is an amount of something gained or caught, like fish in a net, stolen goods, or sweets at Halloween. tree →
3) (noun) A haul is a distance travelled: «a long haul». tree →
4) (verb, informal) To be hauled up or hauled in front of someone means to be made to go there to be told off. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life children talk about their «Halloween haul» of sweets; in sport, a player has a «haul» of goals or medals. In stories it shows effort: «They hauled the boat onto the beach». In transport, lorries haul goods. Phrases: «long haul», «haul up», «for the long haul», «haul of medals».
examples
- We hauled the heavy bags up the stairs. tree →
- The fishermen hauled in their nets. tree →
- My Halloween haul was 40 sweets! tree →
- Police found a big haul of stolen phones. tree →
- Australia won a haul of gold medals. tree →
- It's a long haul flight to New Zealand. tree →
- He was hauled in front of the head teacher. tree →
- Then he jerked away at the rope and his brothers began to haul it up. tree →
note
Regular verb: hauled. Homophone: «hall» (a big room or corridor) in many accents — haul and hall sound the same in UK English. «Long-haul» (with a hyphen before a noun) means a very long trip. «For the long haul» means for a long time.
In the corpora
- «A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank, and the Otter hauled himself out».
- The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «haul» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.