(v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
(v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
(v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
(n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
(n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
(n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
(n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
Example Sentences:
(1) One tip was that he should not mention he was flying to Germany as "obviously" the environmentalists "hate short-haul flights".
(2) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(3) Two more wins against the claret and blues of West Ham and Aston Villa would take Tottenham to 72 points, equalling their Premier League record haul set last season.
(4) They learned from a good example.” His replacement, Diego Costa, duly hauled the hosts level by scoring his 20th league goal of an impressive first campaign in English football from the penalty spot after John O’Shea tripped Cuadrado.
(5) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(6) Zack Snyder's comic-book reimagining, which opens in the UK and US this Friday, is being tipped for an impressive box office haul.
(7) In Northern Ireland, the APD charge is £13 for short haul, while the charge for long haul has been abolished.
(8) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
(9) Sir Bobby Charlton, who is now a United director, will not have his record haul of 49 England goals taken from him just yet.
(10) In early November, I was contacted by my good friend Jamie Stone, who said he wanted to go and offered his truck and trailer to haul supplies.
(11) "This is an important day for the United Kingdom, but you can't haul the country of the United Kingdom against the will of its people.
(12) Tory MPs aware of the discussions in the party point to a deal on cheap air passenger duty for long-haul flights from Belfast, announced last week, as the kind of offer that may persuade DUP MPs to back the boundary reforms.
(13) Over the following years, he was hauled in again and again, questioned over and over, before finally, he decided to leave.
(14) The committee's final haul accounted for about 20% of roughly $78m in contributions this election cycle.
(15) Politicians including the prime minister were highly visible during a Games that delivered the best British medal haul for more than a century, but practitioners such as Jon Glenn, head of youth and community at the Amateur Swimming Association, said: "The government needs to start showing by its actions that it values physical activity.
(16) Just when Poland seemed to be labouring, two touches of blissful simplicity hauled them level.
(17) Studies of transzonal travel indicate that desynchronization of performance and physiological rhythms occurs following long-haul flights.
(18) The army was equally quick to crack down, hauling offenders off for “attitude adjustment” or worse.
(19) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
(20) The ones that are standing today were hauled back into place from the 1950s onwards.
Trice
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
(v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
(n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metformin 0.5 g trice daily or placebo were given for 4 weeks.
(2) This dorsal approach, easy to perform, ensures in a trice the "resting position" of the thumb and the articular congruity.
(3) meter disposable dialyzers and a dialysis strategy of 3 hours every other day or 4 hours trice weekly have been presented.
(4) In Groups B, C, D, G, H and I, the wound was painted trice weekly with a 0.5% solution of Trp-P-2 in DMSO for 8 weeks.
(5) This is the kind of creative accounting that could end the deficit in a trice.)
(6) Soaring inflation could and would destroy that link in a trice.
(7) In Groups A and F, the wound was painted trice weekly with DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) for 8 weeks.
(8) He was treated with bicarbonated hemodialysis trice weekly.
(9) I lope into Café Rui and in a trice they've laid me a place and grilled me some fat small sardines, and found a handful of small squid, which they fry in good oil with cloves of golden garlic.
(10) Bank regulation has been kicked into 2019 – political neverland: in a trice the entire NHS is put up for tender to "any qualified provider" , but banks get seven years to "prepare" while they lobby against already weak reforms.
(11) Don't look for consistency, either: MacMillan could veer between genius, excess and claptrap in a trice – and deciding which is which still divides opinion to this day.
(12) To determine the effect of a recombinant alpha interferon 2b (Intron-A) and possible benefit of prednisolone pretreatment in chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis, 75 Chinese patients with clinico-histologically proven chronic hepatitis were randomly allocated to one of the following regimens: (A) 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 6 months; (B) dose titration according to ALT-AST values; (C) prednisolone withdrawal followed by regimen A; (D) control group: no treatment for 6 months but followed by alternating treatment with 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 2 weeks followed by 2 weeks no treatment for 6 months.
(13) And Jill Abramson , executive editor of the New York Times , was out in a trice, too – sacked, brushed away, her name erased from the paper's masthead with a ruthlessness Kim Jong-Il might have envied.