haul /ˈhɔl/
用力拖拉,拖,拉,捕獲物,拖運距離(vi.)拖,拉,改變方向,改變主意(vt.)拖拉
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通信距離
haul
空載傳輸
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距離
Haul, v. i.
1. Naut. To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. --Cook.
2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
To haul around Naut., to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind.
To haul off Naut., to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.
Haul, n.
1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
5. Rope Making A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
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Haul v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hauled p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.]
1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
Some dance, some haul the rope. --Denham.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land. --Pope.
Romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust. --Thomson.
2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. --U. S. Grant.
To haul over the coals. See under Coal.
To haul the wind Naut., to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
haul
n 1: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the
hill went very slowly" [syn: draw, haulage]
2: the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
[syn: catch]
v 1: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: hale,
cart, drag]
2: transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a
truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"