hauler

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Northern England, UK, Wales/hɔːlə/Australia, British, New Zealand, Southern, Standard/hoːlə/US, US/hɔlɚ/US, US, cot caught merger/hɑlɚ/

noun

A person or thing that hauls another person or thing.

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

nounhauler (plural haulers)

plural haulers

  1. 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 24
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    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 48

    Antonyms: haulee

  2. A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.

    Synonyms: haulier

  3. A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
  4. A truck, lorry (vehicle used to transport heavy goods)

    Synonyms: cart, trailer

  5. InternetSomeone who makes a haul video.
    1 more example

    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.

Opposite

nounA person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.

Similar

nounA truck, lorry (vehicle used to transport heavy goods)

More synonyms by meaning

nouna haulage contractor

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishhalere
  2. Englishhauler

From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.

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Translations

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.

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hauler

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Sounds the same

holler (cot–caught merger)

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APA

hauler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hauler

MLA

“hauler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hauler. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hauler,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hauler.

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