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Definition of Haul off
1. Verb. Take away by means of a vehicle. "They carted off the old furniture"
Definition of Haul off
1. Verb. (idiomatic nautical) To alter course so as to get farther away from an object. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To leave. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic informal) To draw back the arm in order to punch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haul Off
Literary usage of Haul off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"Then haul off, as before directed, for Old Point Comfort light. OF THE THIMBLE.—It
is a small lump SW from the Horse-shoe, with about 2 fathoms water on it. ..."
2. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1876)
"Tho plan answered indifferently well as long as there \vas a sufficient force
left in the wreck; but who -was to haul off the breeches for the last man, ..."
3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"... to get off again ; — mad)en, to get or set afloat, to haul off; — fein, to
float; II. s. provine. I. (str.ting., to. pi. S'ot'ttn) n. ..."
4. Works of J. Fenimore Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1893)
"haul off, haul off, Master Bumppo," cried Benjamin ; "your top-light ... haul off,
Master Bumppo, haul off, I say, and give a wide berth to the seine. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"And why should I haul off, I should like to know? I won't haul off for fifty of
you. ... How would you like to be ordered to haul off from Miss Waldron, ..."
6. A History of the War Between Great Britain and the United States of America by Gilbert Auchinleck (1855)
"... which were worked with so much bravery and skill, that in half an heur we so
disabled both as to compel them to haul off to repair damages. ..."
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