Drag vs. Haul

To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul

To pull or drag forcibly

To cause to trail along a surface, especially the ground

To transport, as with a truck or cart

To move (a pointing device, such as a mouse) while pressing down on one of its buttons.

To cause (oneself) to move, especially slowly or laboriously

To move (an element of a graphical display) on a computer screen using a pointing device.

To compel to go, especially for trial

To cause to move with great effort

(Nautical) To change the course of (a ship), especially in order to sail closer into the wind.

To take or escort (a person, for example), especially in overcoming resistance or reluctance

To pull or drag something forcibly.

To cause to be involved in an unpleasant or difficult situation

To provide transportation; cart.

To force or bring out with great effort

To shift direction

To mention or introduce (an unpleasant or tedious subject)

(Nautical) To change the course of a ship.

To search or sweep the bottom of (a body of water), as with a grappling hook or dragnet

The act of pulling or dragging.

To bring up or catch by such means.

The act of transporting or carting.

To prolong tediously

A distance, especially the distance over which something is pulled or transported

(Baseball) To hit (a bunt) while taking the first steps toward first base.

Something that is pulled or transported; a load.

To break up, rake, or smooth out (land or dirt), especially by pulling a drag or heavy mesh

Everything collected or acquired at a single time; the take

(Informal) To humiliate or shame publicly, especially on social media

(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.

To trail along the ground

(transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.

To move slowly or with effort

(transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

To pass or proceed slowly, tediously, or laboriously

To drag, to pull, to tug.

To search or dredge the bottom of a body of water

Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.

To take part in a drag race.

(intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

To draw on a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.

To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.

Something, such as a harrow or an implement for spreading manure, that is dragged along the ground.

Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).

A device, such as a grappling hook, that is used for dragging under water.

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A heavy sledge or cart for hauling loads.

An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.

A large four-horse coach with seats inside and on top.

The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.

Something, such as a sea anchor or a brake on a fishing reel, that retards motion.

An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.

One that impedes or slows progress; a drawback or burden

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The degree of resistance involved in dragging or hauling.

(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.

The retarding force exerted on a moving body by a fluid medium such as air or water.

Four goals scored by one player in a game.

The act of dragging, especially a slow, laborious movement.

To pull or draw with force; to drag.

The scent or trail of a fox or another animal.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.

Something that provides an artificial scent.

To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.

(Slang) One that is obnoxiously tiresome

A pulling with force; a violent pull.

A puff on a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.

A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.

(Slang) A street or road

That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.

The clothing characteristic of one sex when worn by a member of the opposite sex

Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.

Of, relating to, or being a person wearing clothing characteristic of the opposite sex

A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

Of a fluid to something moving through it.

The act of drawing or hauling something;

(by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.

The quantity that was caught;

The bottom part of a sand casting mold.

Draw slowly or heavily;

(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.

Transport in a vehicle;

A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.

A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.

A puff on a cigarette or joint.

Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.

Street, as in 'main drag'.

(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.

A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.

(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.

(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.

Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.

A pulled load.

A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

Witch house music.

The last position in a line of hikers.

(billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.

A device for guiding wood to the saw.

(historical) A mailcoach.

(slang) A prison sentence of three months.

Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.

Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.

A men's party attended in women's clothing.

Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.

(transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.

To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

(graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

(chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.

(soccer) To hit or kick off target.

To fish with a dragnet.

To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.

To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.

(slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).

To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.

To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; - applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.

To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.

To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

To fish with a dragnet.

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

Something that slows or delays progress;

Something tedious and boring;

Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man);

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);

The act of dragging (pulling with force);

Pull, as against a resistance;

Draw slowly or heavily;

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;

Move slowly and as if with great effort

To lag or linger behind;

Suck in or take (air);

Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu;

Walk without lifting the feet

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting;

Proceed for an extended period of time;