haul up

haul  (hôl)

v. hauled, haul·ing, hauls

v.tr.

1. To pull or drag forcibly; tug. See Synonyms at pull.

2. To transport, as with a truck or cart.

3. Informal To compel to go, especially for trial: "hauled the huge companies into court" (Peter Matthiessen).

4. Nautical To change the course of (a ship), especially in order to sail closer into the wind.

v.intr.

1. To pull; tug.

2. To provide transportation; cart.

3.

a. To shift direction: The wind hauled to the east.

b. To change one's mind.

4. Nautical To change the course of a ship.

n.

1. The act of pulling or dragging.

2. The act of transporting or carting.

3. A distance, especially the distance over which something is pulled or transported.

4. Something that is pulled or transported; a load.

5. Everything collected or acquired by a single effort; the take: a big haul of fish.

Phrasal Verbs:

haul off Informal

1. To draw back slightly, as in preparation for initiating an action: "hauled off and smacked the hapless aide across the face" (Bill Barol).

2. To shift operations to a new place; to move away.

haul up

To come to a halt.

Idiom:

haul ass Vulgar Slang

To move quickly: We'll be late if you don't haul ass.

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[Middle English haulen, from Old French haler, of Germanic origin; see kel-² in Indo-European roots.]

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hauler n.

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haul up

vb (adverb)

1. (tr) Informal to call to account or criticize

2. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical to sail (a vessel) closer to the wind

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

haul up - come to a halt after driving somewhere; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us" pull up, draw up driving - the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal stop, halt - come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" draw up, pull up - cause (a vehicle) to stop; "He pulled up the car in front of the hotel"

Translations

? haul up

vt sep

(= carry) → hinauf- or hochschleppen; flag, sail → hissen; (aboard ship) → (an Bord) hieven, hochziehen; (onto beach) → schleppen, ziehen; (= pull up) → hochzerren, hochziehen; the dinghies were lying hauled up on the beach for the winter → man hatte die Jollen für den Winter an Land gezogen

(fig inf) to haul somebody up before the magistrate/headmaster → jdn vor den Kadi/Schulleiter schleppen (inf); he’s been hauled up on a drugs charge → er wurde wegen einer Rauschgiftsache vor den Kadi gebracht (inf); he was hauled up for speeding → er wurde wegen Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitung vor Gericht gebracht