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HAULING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of transporting goods by truck
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hauling" is a kind of...):
shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hauling"):
cartage; carting (the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it)
Derivation:
haul (transport in a vehicle)
haul (draw slowly or heavily)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb haul
Context examples:
This was dead in our teeth, but I took in the sea-anchor and set sail, hauling a course on the wind which took us in a south-south-easterly direction.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“We was a-talkin' of keel-hauling,” answered Morgan.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And as he had seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling François on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
There was no pulling and hauling on sheets and tackles, no shifting of topsails, no work at all for the sailors to do except to steer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Keel-hauling, was you?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Each man felt that he had been robbed; and the boats were hoisted in amid curses, which, if curses had power, would have settled Death Larsen for all eternity—Dead and damned for a dozen iv eternities, commented Louis, his eyes twinkling up at me as he rested from hauling taut the lashings of his boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke’s; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down—
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
