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(n)
The act of towing.
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A line or rope used for towing a vehicle or vessel.
(Australia) A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
The business of transporting heavy goods.
(nautical) A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
(nautical) A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
(v)
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
The act of joining together to form a couple.
The digit/figure 2.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
(biology, psychology) An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
(ambitransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
(by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
(rail transport) The station code of Kowloon in Hong Kong.
(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
(transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
The act of hauling or dragging.
(Internet) A shopping cart.
(transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
(transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
A movement to do something, a beginning.
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(historical) Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
A mark left by something that has passed along.
(transitive, obsolete) To bestow; apply.
(obsolete) To pull about.
Elongated or trailing portion.
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
(transitive) To put on (clothes) by tugging.
(nautical, ambitransitive) To bring (a square-rigged ship) onto a new tack by hauling back the foresails whilst steering hard round.
(informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
The act or practice of pulling sledges, trucks, etc. by human power, unaided by animals or machines.
(US, colloquial) The buttocks.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A tote bag.
(US) A streetcar or light train.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, chain.
(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
(archaic) Health, welfare.
A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, train.
Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
(obsolete) to drink, especially alcoholic drink
An act of stretching.
(military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
(anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
(obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
A suet dumpling.
(countable) A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
(agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haul, in.
A soft toot sound.
(transitive, nautical) To lift or carry anything along the deck; to help in hauling along.
To attach (a horse, etc.) to a vehicle.
A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
Alternative spelling of touse. [(transitive) To rumple, tousle.]
A group of vessels or vehicles.
(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
Grip.
(nonstandard) Eggcorn of toe the line.
A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)
(transitive) To haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location.
An area or expanse.
(British, dialectal) A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
(obsolete, transitive) To load or burden.
(obsolete) A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.
(informal) To pull forcefully.
Alternative form of touse. [(transitive) To rumple, tousle.]
(archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith.
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
(nautical) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.
(intransitive, obsolete) To whirl around; revolve.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.
(fishing) A hook with a lead shank.
A long or burdensome journey.