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In some senses, manhaul is marked as dated, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
dead, humble, scattered
VERB + MANHAUL
choosing, get
MANHAUL + NOUN
equipment
verb
To pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.
He would die in the Arctic, but in 1908 he manhauled to the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson and Edgeworth David, and on the way they camped near our spot.
With agile topmen at the summit of the towering mast tending the sheaves of the blocks, it needed the humble laborers to manhaul ropes, seized to a girt-line, up the entire height of the mainmast.
noun
The act or practice of pulling sledges, trucks, etc. by human power, unaided by animals or machines.
Australians, for whom Mawson is a national hero, might have heard of his solo trek to survival in 1913, but few would know that he and another Australian, Edgeworth David, with a lone Briton, were the first men to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, and that they did it by the longest unsupported manhaul of the era of discovery.
Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.
A sledge, travois, etc. that is pulled by human power, along with the cargo it is carrying.
After Jim had secured his load, he moved off and must have been a quarter of a mile ahead before Ralph and I set off with the manhaul in tow.
A truck with two long benches in the back (oriented the long way) for people to sit on, or any similar utilitarian vehicle designed to carry many people.
During this period of rehabilitation, personnel had to be hauled over the 12 miles from the old quarters to the new in box-type manhauls that were forever breaking down.
In many countries commercial bus service is infrequent and the vehicles are small. They haul animals and freight as well as people. The buses are always crowded with people perched on every square foot of the bus and sometimes hanging from windows by their fingers. Since that is the custom, they swarm over a manhaul vehicle the same way.
A meal.
During his years at SRF, Kooch never missed the manhauls (meals) at 1100 and 1600. […] Through the years as his hearing got bad, Kooch would not hear the Whistle. Since then, manhauls were delayed until he was found and ushered aboard.
He would die in the Arctic, but in 1908 he manhauled to the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson and Edgeworth David, and on the way they camped near our spot.
WiktionaryWith agile topmen at the summit of the towering mast tending the sheaves of the blocks, it needed the humble laborers to manhaul ropes, seized to a girt-line, up the entire height of the mainmast.
WiktionarySS-Sturmbannführer Fritz Hartjenstein, the camp commandant, prefers to use kids ranging in ages from five to eleven to manhaul the scattered dead as he believes children are less likely to escape, pil
WiktionaryAustralians, for whom Mawson is a national hero, might have heard of his solo trek to survival in 1913, but few would know that he and another Australian, Edgeworth David, with a lone Briton, were the
WiktionaryHuntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.
WiktionaryThat night I asked Ginny to get this manhaul equipment to us the next day in the Twin Otter.
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In some senses, manhaul is marked as dated, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.