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haul

verb

1 she hauled the laden basket up the slope:

drag, pull, tug, heave, hump, trail, draw, tow, manhandle;

informal lug;

North American, informal schlep;

archaic hale.

▷antonyms push.

2 a contract to haul coal over a five-year period:

transport, convey, cart, carry, ship, ferry, move, shift, take.

□ haul someone over the coals

British

he can expect to be hauled over the coals for criticizing his club:

admonish, reprimand, rebuke, scold, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambast, berate, reproach, lecture, criticize, take to task, pull up, read the Riot Act to, give a piece of one's mind to;

informal tell off, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, bawl out, pitch into, lay into, lace into, blow up, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, send someone away with a flea in their ear, let someone have it, give someone hell;

British, informal tick off, have a go at, carpet, monster, tear someone off a strip, give someone a mouthful, give someone what for, give someone some stick, give someone a wigging;

North American, informal chew out, ream out;

British, vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking, tear someone a new arsehole, rip someone a new arsehole;

North American, vulgar slang tear someone a new asshole, rip someone a new asshole;

dated trim, rate, give someone a rating;

rare reprehend, objurgate.

▷antonyms praise, commend, compliment.

noun

the thieves were forced to abandon their haul:

booty, loot, plunder;

spoils, stolen goods, gains, ill-gotten gains;

informal swag, the goods, hot goods, boodle.

haul Oxford Dictionary of English