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Is haul a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word haul is a Scrabble US word. The word haul is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is haul a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word haul is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

H4A1U1L1

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Yes. The word haul is a Words With Friends word. The word haul is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

HAUL,HULA,

3-letter words (2 found)

ALU,LAH,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,AL,HA,LA,UH,

You can make 9 words from haul according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of haul

haul ahul hual uhal auhl uahl halu ahlu hlau lhau alhu lahu hula uhla hlua lhua ulha luha aulh ualh aluh lauh ulah luah

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Definitions and meaning of haul

haul

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɔːl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /hɔl/
  • (cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /hɑl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • Homophone: hall

Verb

haul (third-person singular simple present hauls, present participle hauling, simple past and past participle hauled)

  1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
  5. (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
  6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
  7. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
    Antonym: veer
  8. (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
    Antonym: veer
  9. (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (go fast).

Derived terms

Related terms

  • hale (verb)

Descendants

  • Welsh: halio

Translations

Noun

haul (plural hauls)

  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. (Internet) Short for haul video (video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items).
  5. (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
  6. (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
    Synonym: poker

Synonyms

  • (amount of illegal loot taken): see Thesaurus:booty

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Anagrams

  • hula

Luxembourgish

Verb

haul

  1. second-person singular imperative of haulen

Middle English

Noun

haul

  1. Alternative form of hayle (hail)

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh heul, from Proto-Celtic *sāwol (compare Cornish howl, Breton heol; compare also Old Irish súil (eye)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /haɨ̯l/
  • (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /hai̯l/
    • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /hɔi̯l/
  • Rhymes: -aɨ̯l

Noun

haul m (plural heuliau, not mutable)

  1. sun

Derived terms

See also

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hall, from Old English heall, from Proto-West Germanic *hallu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔɫ/

Noun

haul

  1. hall

Derived terms

  • Yola Haul

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45

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