Haul

What “Haul” means

Verb

1. To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
2. To draw or pull something heavy.
3. To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
4. To drag, to pull, to tug.
5. Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.

Noun

1. An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
2. The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
3. An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
4. Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
5. A bundle of many threads to be tarred.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian

Business name ideas with “Haul”

Industries where “Haul” fits

We suggest this word for 56 business types and industries, including:

• Fishing Charter
• Junk Removal Business
• Limo Service
• Logistics Company
• Moving Company
• Towing Company
• Trucking Company
• Air Traffic Control
• All Other Pipeline Transportation
• All Other Support Activities for Transportation
• All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
• Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems
• Charter Bus Industry
• Coastal and Great Lakes Freight Transportation
• Coastal and Great Lakes Passenger Transportation
• Commuter Rail Systems
• Deep Sea Freight Transportation
• Deep Sea Passenger Transportation
• Freight Transportation Arrangement
• General Freight Trucking, Local
• General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than Truckload
• General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload
• Inland Water Freight Transportation
• Inland Water Passenger Transportation
• Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation
• Limousine Service
• Marine Cargo Handling
• Mixed Mode Transit Systems
• Motor Vehicle Towing
• Navigational Services to Shipping
• Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation
• Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation
• Other Airport Operations
• Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation
• Other Support Activities for Air Transportation
• Other Support Activities for Road Transportation
• Other Support Activities for Water Transportation
• Other Urban Transit Systems
• Packing and Crating
• Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil