haul up

verb

1. informal.
   tr to call to account or criticize
2. nautical to sail (a vessel) closer to the wind

Example Sentences

He’s hauled up bicycles, guns, grenades, and jewelry from New York City waterways, promoting his exploits on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.

From Seattle Times

Maybe, the thinking went, the mice had scurried into firewood or other supplies hauled up the slopes by the Incas.

From Science Daily

After packing their heavy gear — rope bags, rigging equipment, glide, head protector and Becker bar and slings — responders hauled up the trail to save Dakota.

From Seattle Times

Pieces of Lego are hauled up every week by fishermen off Cornwall, more than 25 years after a huge cargo ship spill.

From BBC

Most notable among them was Charles Wyville Thomson, a Scotsman who in the 1860s hauled up glass sponges, sea spiders, and other curiosities—thus debunking a theory that the deep ocean was lifeless.

From Scientific American

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