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manhaul en · NOUN

Etymology

From man + haul.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or practice of pulling sledges, trucks, etc. by human power, unaided by animals or machines.
   • Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho. 2012, Captain R. F. Scott, The Last Expedition:
   • That night I asked Ginny to get this manhaul equipment to us the next day in the Twin Otter. 2013, Ranulph Fiennes, Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth:
   • Australians, for whom Mawson is a national hero, might have heard of his solo trek to survival in 1913, but few would know that he and another Australian, Edgeworth David, with a lone Briton, were the first men to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, and that they did it by the longest unsupported manhaul of the era of discovery. 2006, Granville Allen Mawen, South by Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 2:
2. (countable, uncountable) A sledge, travois, etc. that is pulled by human power, along with the cargo it is carrying.
   • After Jim had secured his load, he moved off and must have been a quarter of a mile ahead before Ralph and I set off with the manhaul in tow. 2021, Brian J Taylor, Tales from Bluebell Cottage:
3. (countable, uncountable) A truck with two long benches in the back (oriented the long way) for people to sit on, or any similar utilitarian vehicle designed to carry many people.
   • During this period of rehabilitation, personnel had to be hauled over the 12 miles from the old quarters to the new in box-type manhauls that were forever breaking down. 1954 January, CDR J. L. Dowd, CEC, USN, “Something from Nothing”, in U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin, volume 8, number 1, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps: Bureau of Yards and Docks, page 14:
   • The mechanic and a couple of his mates came in and Toby turned to them. "Ray, get a manhaul, pull in here right at the door. See how fast you can be." 1971, Asian Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs, volumes 3–4, Cultural and Social Centre for the Asian and Pacific Region, page 92:
   • In many countries commercial bus service is infrequent and the vehicles are small. They haul animals and freight as well as people. The buses are always crowded with people perched on every square foot of the bus and sometimes hanging from windows by their fingers. Since that is the custom, they swarm over a manhaul vehicle the same way. 1960 July, Robert L. Jenkins, “Habits, Customs, Beliefs of Native Labor on Overseas Construction Concern Army, Air Force, Navy Engineers”, in The Navy Civil Engineer, United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps: Bureau of Yards and Docks, page 21:
4. (US, countable, dated, slang, uncountable) A meal.
   • During his years at SRF, Kooch never missed the manhauls (meals) at 1100 and 1600. […] Through the years as his hearing got bad, Kooch would not hear the Whistle. Since then, manhauls were delayed until he was found and ushered aboard. 1998, Dirk Anthony Ballendorf, editor, U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility: Guam History Book: 1945 to 1997, United States Department of Defense, page 54:

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manhauls	Number=Plur		lexicographic
man-haul		alternative	lexicographic

manhaul en · VERB

Etymology

From man + haul.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.
   • SS-Sturmbannführer Fritz Hartjenstein, the camp commandant, prefers to use kids ranging in ages from five to eleven to manhaul the scattered dead as he believes children are less likely to escape, pilfer, or make contact with the Polish partisans on the outside of the camp. 2007, Ralph Albert Gessner, Deep in My Heart, 2nd edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 177:
   • I have fallen into yawning crevasses hundreds of miles from the nearest human, I have manhauled sledge loads, for a thousand miles and more, that were 100 lbs heavier than those of Shackleton's men. 2014, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, “Foreword”, in Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance, Adlard Coles Nautical, →ISBN, page xi:
   • He would die in the Arctic, but in 1908 he manhauled to the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson and Edgeworth David, and on the way they camped near our spot. 1996, Sara Wheeler, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 139:
   • With agile topmen at the summit of the towering mast tending the sheaves of the blocks, it needed the humble laborers to manhaul ropes, seized to a girt-line, up the entire height of the mainmast. 2001, Julian Stockwin, Kydd, Scribner, →ISBN, page 73:

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Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
man-haul		alternative	lexicographic
manhauls	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
manhauling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
manhauled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
manhauled	Tense=Past		lexicographic