Haul
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
(2): ( v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(3): ( n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
(4): ( n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
(5): ( n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
(6): ( v. t.) To pull or draw with force; to drag.
(7): ( n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
(8): ( v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
(9): ( v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
in Norse mythology, is one of the rivers of hell, which spring from the antlers. of the reindeer AEjkthyrners. Its dew flows into the spring Hwergelmer, and from this all the rivers flow.
