Meanings
plural haulers
- A person or thing that hauls another person or thing.
Hauler, noun. "'Bizarre' and 'normal' remind me of the classic scenario of someone being hauled off to the insane asylum and an argument starts about who is insane and who is normal — hauler or haulee?"
1985, Thomas M. Paikeday, Noam Chomsky, The native speaker is dead!: an informal discussion of a linguistic myth, Paikeday Pub., page 241 more example
Hauler, noun. "Then, holding myself in position by grasping the part of the rope that falls from the other side of the fork, I unclip the loop round the trunk and let it swing clear. Next, combining the roles of hauler and haulee, I climb up, hand over hand using irons as much as possible, until I am right under one of the dividing limbs of the fork."
1943, Captain M.E.W. North, Some artificial methods of tree-climbing, The Ibis, Volume 85, published 1943, page 48Antonyms: haulee
- InternetSomeone who makes a haul video.
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The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]
2016, Aaron Duplantier, Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube, McFarland, →ISBN, page 132
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person or thing that hauls another person or thing.
nounA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
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Origin
- Middle Englishhalere
- Englishhauler
From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.
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French porteur, transporteur
- porteurA person or thing that hauls another person or thing.
- transporteurA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
- camionneurA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
- entrepreneur de transportsA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
German Spediteur, Transportunternehmen
- SpediteurA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
- TransportunternehmenA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
Russian перево́зчик, отка́тчик
- перево́зчик (perevózčik)A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
- отка́тчик (otkátčik)A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
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hauler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hauler
“hauler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hauler. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hauler,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hauler.
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