haul

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To pull or drag forcibly: synonym: pull.
• intransitive verb To transport, as with a truck or cart.
• intransitive verb To cause (oneself) to move, especially slowly or laboriously.
• intransitive verb To compel to go, especially for trial.
• intransitive verb Nautical To change the course of (a ship), especially in order to sail closer into the wind.
• intransitive verb To pull or drag something forcibly.
• intransitive verb To provide transportation; cart.
• intransitive verb To shift direction.
• intransitive verb Nautical To change the course of a ship.
• noun The act of pulling or dragging.
• noun The act of transporting or carting.
• noun A distance, especially the distance over which something is pulled or transported.
• noun Something that is pulled or transported; a load.
• noun Everything collected or acquired at a single time; the take.
• idiom (haul ass) To move quickly.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To pull or draw with force; move or transport by drawing; drag: as, to haul down the sails; to haul in the boom; to haul a load of wood.
• Synonyms Drag, Draw, etc. See draw.
• To pull or tug; endeavor to drag something: as, to haul at a heavy load.
• Nautical, to alter a ship's course; change the direction of sailing; move on a new course; hence, to sail, in general.
• To shift, veer, or change, as the wind.
• To draw off or away; withdraw, as from a movement or scheme.
• noun A pulling with force; a pull; a tug.
• noun In fishing: The draft of a net: as, to catch so many fish at a haul.
• noun The place where a seine is hauled.
• noun That which is taken or obtained by hauling; specifically, the number or quantity of fish taken in one haul of a seine; a catch.
• noun Hence Any valuable acquisition; a “find.”
• noun The distance and route over which something is hauled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A pulling with force; a violent pull.
• noun A single draught of a net.
• noun That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
• noun Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car.
• noun (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
• transitive verb To pull or draw with force; to drag.
• transitive verb To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
• transitive verb See under Coal.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under haul, v. t.
• intransitive verb To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) to shift to any point of the compass; -- said of the wind.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
• verb To pull or draw something heavy.
• verb nautical To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
• verb nautical, of the wind To shift fore (more towards the bow).