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haul ((v.)) † 
1 v. drag or draw a load, such as coal, grain, or logs.
- 1743 (1949) For our firing we use all wood which is fell in the winter and hawl'd out. . . .
- 1804 (1933) Azure [is] hauling logs.
- 1928 Surrounding the settlement was a tangle of second-growth timber, penetrated in every direction by the old roads where, at one time, great loads of logs had been hauled out from the cuttings.
- 1955 . . . it is beginning to look as though very little wood will be left to haul at the end of the present month.
- 1960 [Caption] The first attempt to haul freight to Cariboo by mechanical means was made by F. J. Barnard and J. C. Beedy.
2 v. travel with a load.
- 1872 . . . we had fifteen miles to haul along a lumber road to the mouth of Rocky brook. . . .
- 1933 We hauled across lots of yellow, slushy places. . . .
- 1743 (1949) For our firing we use all wood which is fell in the winter and hawl'd out. . . .