v.
    - pull or drag with effort or force.
- transport in a truck or cart.
- (of a sailing ship) change course abruptly.
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(haul off)
 N. Amer. informal leave. ▸withdraw slightly before doing something. 
n.
   - a quantity of something obtained, especially illegally.
- a number of fish caught at one time.
- a distance to be travelled.
Phrase
  
    
      - haul someone over the coals
 see coal.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  C16 (orig. in the naut. sense ‘trim sails for sailing closer to the wind’): var. of hale2.