dag vs haul

dag

verb
  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

haul

verb
  • To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. 

  • To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. 

  • To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind. 

  • Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow). 

  • To haul ass (“go fast”). 

  • To drag, to pull, to tug. 

  • Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something. 

  • To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. 

  • To draw or pull something heavy. 

noun
  • An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip. 

  • The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long. 

  • A bundle of many threads to be tarred. 

  • Four goals scored by one player in a game. 

  • An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug. 

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