different between haul vs chockablock

English

Etymology

From Middle English h?len, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up, raise; to exert a drawing or hauling force; to pull at, tear at; to rush; to flow, run; to reach, stretch”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *hal?n (“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 *hal?n?, *hal?n?, *hul?n? (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to call, cry, summon”). The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ?eholian (“to get, obtain”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h?l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /h?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• 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)

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.
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5. (Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
6. (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

References

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 *s?wol (compare Cornish howl, Breton heol; compare also Old Irish súil (“eye”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh?wl?.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ha??l/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /hai?l/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /h?i?l/

Noun

haul m (plural heuliau, not mutable)

1. sun

Derived terms

• Cysawd yr Haul (“Solar System”)
• machlud haul (“sunset”)
• heulog (“sunny”)

See also

Yola

Etymology

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

Noun

haul

1. hall

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• chock-a-block
• chock a block
• choc-a-bloc

Etymology

chock + a + block

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k??bl?k/

Adjective

chockablock (comparative more chockablock, superlative most chockablock)

1. (nautical) (of a ship's hoisting tackle) Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
2. (by extension) Jammed tightly together; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed.

   Some of Sardinia's gorgeous seaside towns have lately been invaded by builders who erected chockablock housing that catered to middle-income tourists but threatened to spoil the landscape.

Derived terms

• chock
• chocka
• chocker
• chockers
• chokka

Translations

Adverb

chockablock (comparative more chockablock, superlative most chockablock)

1. In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible.

   His study had books stacked chockablock on every shelf.

   The meeting hall was chockablock full of angry citizens.

   • 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Free exchange: Concrete gains

     AMERICA is full of vast, empty spaces. Europe, by contrast, seems chock-a-block with humanity, its history shaped by a lack of continental elbowroom.

Related terms

• chockful, chockfull, chock-full, chock full