haul vs transport

haul

verb
  • To drag, to pull, to tug. 

  • 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”). 

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

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

  • 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. 

transport

verb
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey. 

  • To deport to a penal colony. 

  • To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away. 

noun
  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture. 

  • An act of transporting; conveyance. 

  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.) 

  • A tractor-trailer. 

  • A deported convict. 

  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc. 

  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system. 

How often have the words haul and transport occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )