verb

• (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  "to haul logs to a sawmill"
• (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
  "Thither they bent, and haul'd their ſhip to land, / (The crooked keel divides the yellow ſand) / Ulyſſes ſleeping on his couch they bore, / And gently plac'd him on the rocky ſhore."
• (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  "The California fruit trade is all handled by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads. The last named road operates its own refrigerator cars and fixes its own rates. It hauls fully half of the traffic and it is therefore evident that the "Beef Trust" has no voice or power in the matter. […] The same condition exists with the melon grower of Colorado, except that in this case the Santa Fe road hauls nearly all of the product."
• (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
  "The 26-year-old [Papiss Cissé] has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road."

noun

• (Internet) Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
  "Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas. In her 2017 haul that's been watched 1.7 million times, Olivia Jade – a 19-year-old beauty and fashion tipster and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin – sat on a plush white bed in polar bear pyjamas and a Santa hat. One by one, she showed off a bottle of Valentino perfume ("sweet mixed with floral"), a cropped, purple fuzzy sweater from Urban Outfitters, bikinis, sneakers, jeans, underwear, high heels, dresses, tops and more."
• (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
  "When the collected yarns number about 400, they are coiled up in a haul, and are ready either for tarring, or laying into white ropes. Previous to the haul being taken up for tarring, there is a slight turn put into it to keep it from getting entangled in the tar-kettle. […] 400 of such threads constituted a haul, and weighed 12 cwt. 2 qrs, and when tarred 15 cwt."
• (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
  "Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'."