hauling
part of speech
verb, -ing form of haul (haul, hauls, hauled, hauling); noun (hauling — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Pulling or dragging something heavy with effort. tree →
2) Carrying goods by lorry or truck from place to place; hauling as a noun is this job. tree →
3) (informal) Taking someone somewhere they do not want to go: hauling them off to the dentist. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science (forces, pulling) and in stories of fishermen, sailors and builders; in adult life, trucking jobs. Phrases: hauling in the nets, hauling up, long-distance hauling.
examples
- The fishermen were hauling in their nets. tree →
- We were hauling the heavy box up the stairs. tree →
- The truck is hauling logs to the sawmill. tree →
- Horses were used for hauling carts long ago. tree →
- Mum is hauling us off to see Aunt Jean. tree →
- Hauling a sledge uphill is hard work. tree →
- One beautiful bright morning, as he was hauling his well-filled nets into the boat, he saw lying among the fishes a tiny little turtle. tree →
note
Base verb haul; past hauled. Homophone trap: haul sounds like hall. Haul as a noun also means a lot of stolen or caught things: a big haul of fish.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hauling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.