man-haul

present singular third person man-hauls · participle present man-hauling · participle past man-hauled · past man-hauled

1. alternativeAlternative form of manhaul.

   The ride to Kettle Falls was uneventful except for having to man-haul the canoe around trees because the travois needed more room.

   2018, L Leighton Decore, Twice Chosen Man, page 125

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   When the Whaleboat was left on the Ice that afternoon as the able-bodied Men went back to man-haul forward the 5 Boats left behind on the First Haul, Captain Fitzjames confessed to me that his Vision was terribly blurred and that he was frequently seeing Double.

   2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel

   On our Antarctic crossing 1993 we fashioned crampons from spare rope, as did Mawson, in order to man-haul over steep areas of blue-ice glaciers.

   2010, Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard:, page xi

   I thought a lot today about pacing, prompted by thoughts of Reinhold Messner, the Austrian-born mountain climber who will soon begin his attempt to ski and man-haul across an eighteen-hundred-mile section of Antarctica.

   2010, Will Steger, Jon Bowermaster, Crossing Antarctica, page 182

plural man-hauls

1. Alternative form of manhaul.
   1. countableuncountableThe act or practice of pulling cargo by human effort.

      Supplies are carried from the caches to buildings by hand or by man-haul sleds .

      1958, Reports and Documents - Volume 5, page 122

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      Scott's expedition, as successful as any man-haul expedition in history, coincided with uniquely bad weather; was not planned as a race, though it was forced too late in the day to try to compete; and achieved a hugely valuable survey and science program.

      2005, Ranulph Fiennes, Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, page 287

      If anyone can accomplish the man-haul, Messner (and partner Arved Fuchs, a veteran German polar explorer) probably can.

      2010, Will Steger, Jon Bowermaster, Crossing Antarctica

   2. countableuncountableVehicle to carry many people.

      The rumpus started later on that evening, as soon as the man-haul dropped off the workers at the wet canteen .

      2023, Peter F Barry, For Pete’s Sake

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      In addition to muck cars, various special cars must be provided to facilitate the work. These include man-haul, explosives, vent pipe, flat-, and concrete cars.

      2012, Thomas R. Kuesel, Elwyn H. King, John O. Bickel, Tunnel Engineering Handbook, page 236

      He always wanted to get one more tree felled before boarding the man-haul bus to leave the woods each night, just as he was hungry for more hay to stack when he was a teenager.

      2012, Edna Eades, Who is This Man, page 52