Meaning of manhaul | Babel Free

Definitions

To pull sledges, trucks, etc. by manpower, unaided by animals or machines.

transitive

Examples

“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.”

“SS-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, pilfer, or make contact with the Polish partisans on the outside of the camp.”

“I have fallen into yawning crevasses hundreds of miles from the nearest human, I have manhauled sledge loads, for a thousand miles and more, that were 100 lbs heavier than those of Shackleton's men.”

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