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• long-haul ‎(verb)

Verb

longhaul ‎(third-person singular simple present longhauls, present participle longhauling, simple past and past participle longhauled)

1. To travel a long distance.
   • 2008 July, Tony Soper, “Arctic Tern: Sterna paradisaea”, in Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 5th edition, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, Ct.: The Globe Pequot Press, ISBN 978-1-84162-238-5, page 203:

     Though they breed in the High Arctic summer, Arctic terns 'winter' south in the austral summer, thus living a life of perpetual summer and almost endless daylight in the classic example of 'globe-spanning'. […] Longhauling 22,000 miles a year they are the only northern breeding species which migrates regularly to Antarctic waters.

   • 2016, Annie O'Neill, One Night, Twin Consequences (Monticello Baby Miracles), London: Mills & Boon, ISBN 978-0-263-06473-5:

     The words hung between them, heavy with self-recrimination. Harriet shook her head. What was the point in this? More Poor me before she long-hauled it back across the Atlantic? She had enough baggage, thank you very much.

2. To transport goods over long distances.
   • 1941, Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 82, a Resolution Relating to the Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1, 2, 3, and 5, 1941, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, OCLC 4177046, page 178:

     Q. What would the Denver & Rio Grande Western get if it hauled that same car from Salt Lake to Pueblo and longhauled it to Santa Fe on its own branch? / A. About 26 or 27 cents.

   • 1954, Foreign Trade Zones in the U.S.A. (Technical Assistance Mission; 28), Paris: Organisation for European Economic Cooperation, OCLC 604396804, page 53:

     […] Foreign Trade Zone cargoes may be discharged at Berth 60 and longhauled with stevedoring equipment into Foreign Trade Zone No. 4.

   • 1995 December, “Description of the Applicant's Proposed Project and Other Alternatives”, in Draft Federal Environmental Impact Statement: Resource Investments Inc. Landfill Facility, volume I, Seattle, Wash.: United States Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, OCLC 33860670, page 2-3:

     Integrated Solid Waste Management Program, Based on Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Out-of-Country Landfilling (i.e., Longhaul): This alternative would have required the same practices for waste reduction and recycling as the previous alternative. Instead of developing a new in-county landfill, remaining solid waste would be disposed of in existing landfills and longhauled to an out-of-country landfill once the existing landfills reached their capacity.

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 978-0-684-84269-1:

     You need to get into long-distance moving. […] I got a cousin in Alabama, which he's based in Birmingham, gets plenty of work long-hauling furniture and whatnot.

   • 2015, Mary Kay Andrews, Beach Town: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-1-250-06593-3:

     I got a couple guys who work for me part time, doing body work and painting, but I do most of the longhauling myself, delivering cars to locations.

Related terms

• long haul
• longhauled ‎(adjective)
• longhauling ‎(noun)