0 past simple and past participle of haul
1 to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty:
The fishermen were hauling the nets in at the back of the boat.
Firstly, navigation was sometimes interrupted by natural obstacles and luggage and goods had to be hauled overland.
From about 128 km away, they hauled huge basalt boulders, from which to carve colossal heads, and nearly 100 other sculptures.
In the meantime the first barges had been unloaded and hauled ashore in preparation for being broken up for firewood.