haul vs put down

haul

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

put down

verb
  • To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially. 

  • To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle. 

  • To euthanize (an animal). 

  • To make prices, or taxes, lower. 

  • To pay. 

  • To terminate a call; to hang up. 

  • To give something as a reason for something else. 

  • To add a name to a list. 

  • To insult, belittle, or demean. 

  • To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force. 

  • To land. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down. 

  • To write (something). 

  • To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 

  • To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book). 

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