18 wheeler
3PL
agent
available truckloads
b-train
backhaul
big truck
broker
brokerage
bulk
bulk carrier
bulk freight
cargo
cargo carrier
carrier
cartage
cdl
cdl test
Central Refridgerated
common carrier
Contract Carrier
credit reports
deadhead
delivery
delivery service
direct drive
Direct shipper
dispatch
Dispatcher
distribution
driver
Driver log
driving
driving careers
Driving direction
driving jobs
dry box
dry van
Edge truckers
eflatbed
end dump
end dump trailer
equipment
expedite
expedited
expedited trucking
factoring
fast cash
find a truck
find freight
find loads
flat
flatbed
flatbed freight
flatbed trucking
fleet
Flying J
forwarder
forwarding
free postings
freeloads
freight
freight broker
freight carrier
freight company
freight find
freight finder
freight forwarder
freight forwarders
freight forwarding
freight line
freight matching
freight matching services
freighter
freighting
Fuel Optimization
Fuel Tax
get loaded
haul
haulage
hauling
heavy haul
hopper
Hotshot
IFS
independent truck driver
Intermediary
intermodal
Internet truckstop
just in time
Lading Bill
less than a truck load
less than truckload
live floor trailer
load
load board
load match
load matching
load planning
loadboard
loading dock
loads
loads online
Logistics
long haul
ltl
matching
mileage
online freight
operator
OTR
Over the road trucking
owner
owner operator
owner operator truck driver
pick ups
pigg back
piggy-back
post
post loads
private fleet
quote
reefer
reefers sale
refridgerated
refrigerated
refrigerated truck
road conditions
roadlink
route
searching
semi
semi trailer
semi truck
sending
service logistics
ship
shipment
shipper
shipping
short haul
specialty equipment
speedway
Supply Chain
Supply Chain management
tanker
temperature controlled
third party logistics
ton
tracing
tracking
tractor
traffic
Traffic management
Traffic manager
trailer
transport
transportation
Transportation Directory
truck
truck company
truck driver
truck driving career
Truck Driving Job
Truck Driving School
truck freight
Truck loads
trucker
trucker news
trucker edge
truckin
trucking
Trucking Broker
trucking co
trucking company
trucking freight
trucking industry
trucking links
truckload
truckload rate truckload
trucks loads
truckstop
Van
Vehicle
warehouse links
warehouse logistics
warehousing 

short haul

a. 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it.
- Isa. xxviii. 20.
2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
- Chaucer.
To short absense I could yield.
- Milton.
3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; - usually with of; as, to be short of money.
We shall be short in our provision.
- Shak.
5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
Marinell was sore offended
That his departure thence should be so short.
- Spenser.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.
- Clarendon.
7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Their own short understandings reach
No farther than the present.
- Rowe.
8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); - with of.
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
- Landor.
9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
11. (Metal) Brittle.
12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; - opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, 22, 30.At short notice
in a brief time; promptly.
Short rib
(Anat.) one of the false ribs.
Short suit
(Whist) any suit having only three cards, or less than three.
To come short
etc. See under Come, Cut, etc.
- R. A. Proctor.

n. 1. A summary account.
The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
- Shak.
2. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
The first remove above bran is shorts.
- Halliwell.
3. Short, inferior hemp.
4. Breeches; shortclothes.
5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat," "not" and "naught," we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs.
- H. Sweet.
In short
in few words; in brief; briefly.
The long and the short
the whole; a brief summing up.
The shorts
(Stock Exchange) those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver.

adv. 1. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.
- Howell.
To sell short
(Stock Exchange) to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.

v. t. 1. To shorten.
v. i. 1. To fail; to decrease.

Noun 1. short haul - the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
2. short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Synonyms: short circuit
3. short - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
Synonyms: shortstop
Verb 1. short - cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Synonyms: short-change
2. short - create a short-circuit in
Synonyms: short-circuit
Adj. 1. short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
Antonyms:
long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
2. short - primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
Antonyms:
long - primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
3. short - low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
Antonyms:
tall - great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"
4. short - not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
Synonyms: inadequate, poor
5. short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
Antonyms:
long - holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
6. short - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
Antonyms:
long - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
7. short - containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
8. short - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
Synonyms: scant, light
9. short haul - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
10. short - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
11. short - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
Synonyms: shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
12. short - unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"
Synonyms: unforbearing
13. short - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered, choleric
14. short - most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"
Synonyms: shortest
15. short - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt
Adv. 1. short - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
Synonyms: abruptly, dead, suddenly
2. short - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
3. short - clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
4. short - at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
5. short - so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
6. short - at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
Synonyms: unawares
7. short - tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
8. short - in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
Synonyms: curtly, shortly

Related Words
3-D, Bermuda shorts, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Spartan, Technicolor, Western, aback, abbreviate, abridged, abruptly, adulterated, aggressive, all in all, amount, amplify, animated cartoon, apart from, aposiopestic, arrested, badly off, bankrupt in, bare of, barring, bear, bear account, bearish, beastly, before, bereft of, black-and-white film, blemished, bluff, blunt, brash, break, break in on, briefly, brisk, broken circuit, brusque, burden, butt in, callow, cartoon, cavalier, charge, chiller, chunky, churlish, cinema, circuit, circuital field, clipped, close, close-tongued, closed circuit, closemouthed, color film, cometary, compact, compendious, complete circuit, compressed, condensed, contracted, core, couchant, cramped, creepie, crisp, crouched, crusty, cursory, curt, curtail, curtal, curtate, cut, cut off, cut short, damaged, dead circuit, debased, decreased, decurtate, defective, deficient, denuded of, depressed, deprived of, depthless, destitute of, devoid of, diminished, diminutive, dinky, direct, discourteous, distressed, docked, documentary, documentary film, down to bedrock, dumb, dwarfish, economical of words, educational film, electrify, elfin, elliptic, embarrassed, embryonic, empty of, energize, epigrammatic, erroneous, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, exiguous, fail, failing, fallible, faulty, feature, feeling the pinch, few, film, flashing, flat, fleet, flick, flicker, flickering, footling, for want of, forlorn of, forthwith, found wanting, galvanic circuit, galvanize, generate, gist, gnomic, gruff, half-pint, hard up, harsh, hastily, horror picture, horse opera, hot circuit, hot pants, hurriedly, hypoplastic, ill off, immature, impaired, impecunious, imperfect, impolite, imprecise, impure, in Queer Street, in a nutshell, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in short, in short supply, in straitened circumstances, in want of, inaccurate, incomplete, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indisposed to talk, inexact, infant, inferior, insignificant, instantaneous, instantly, insufficient, interrupt, irascible, knee-high, knocked flat, laconic, laid low, land-poor, lateral circuit, leaving out, leg, lessened, limited, little, live circuit, loop, loop in, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, magnetic circuit, makeshift, meager, meat, mediocre, meteoric, microcircuit, midget, miniature, minus, minuscule, missing, mixed, momentary, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, multiple circuit, multiple series, mum, mute, narrow, neap, needing, negligible, newsreel, no great shakes, not perfect, nudie, off, offhand, on the edge, one-horse, out of, out of pocket, part, partial, patchy, path, penniless, peremptorily, petite, petty, photodrama, photoplay, picayune, picayunish, picture, picture show, piddling, pinched, pindling, pint-sized, pith, pithy, plug in, pocket, pointed, poky, poor, poorly off, pornographic film, precluding, preview, printed circuit, prone, pruned, puny, purport, quick, quiet, rare, recumbent, reduced, reserved, rough, runty, scant, scant of, scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, sententious, series multiple, setting aside, severe, shallow, sharp, shock, short account, short and sweet, short circuit, short interest, short of, short of funds, short of money, short seller, short side, short-circuit, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, shorten, shortened, shorts, shy, shy of, silent, silent film, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skin flick, skin-deep, slender, smallish, snappish, sneak preview, snippety, snippy, snug, spaghetti Western, sparing of words, sparse, speechless, speedy, squatty, squeezed, step down, step up, stiffen, stint, stooped, stop, straight, straightforward, straitened, strapped, stubby, stumpy, stunted, sudden, suddenly, summary, superficial, supine, surly, swift, switch off, switch on, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, talkie, talking picture, temporary, terminate, testy, thick, thickset, thriller, thrust, tight, tight-lipped, tiny, to the point, tongue-tied, trailer, transient, transitory, trifling, trim, trivial, truculent, truncated, turn off, turn on, two-by-four, unanticipatedly, unaware, unblessed with, uncivil, underdeveloped, underground film, undeveloped, unelevated, uneven, unexpectedly, unfinished, ungracious, unloquacious, unmoneyed, unperfected, unpossessed of, unprosperous, unreached, unsound, untalkative, unthorough, upshot, vector field, vest-pocket, void of, wanting, wee, without warning, word-bound, wordless More Related Words and Usage Samples
short play hair photo short style short hills girl short skirt short 2 love short story short movie jacket long short skirt short story idea african american short hair style short term medical insurance curly hair short short wedding dress curly cut hair short hair medium short style hair mandy moore short german short haired pointer hair prom short short friendship poem short sales celebrity hair short short term housing day mother poem short short love quote celebrity cut hair short short story writing short term rental center pump short town short term disability insurance short quote short sale short cut long leg short skirt aniston cut hair jennifer short short interest short people funny short joke girl short man short hair style short film festival short story online short term memory loss short skirt pic hilton short hills short term missions funny short story short term memory martin short free short story short haired girl short story contest girl in short skirt short wave radio short hair dos 2004 hair short style strawberry short cake very short hair style short funny poem german short hair short term short circuit short selling child short story bo short short hair picture erotic short story too short lyric short break hair short updos short hair cut woman short sleeve black hair short style short curly hair style hair style for short hair celebrity short hair style short hair cut style german short hair pointer short hair style for prom short dress hair hair prom short style short term loan short term disability short wet short hair style for woman short joke short love poem the mall at short hills picture of short hair cut short hair style picture short term health insurance short short film short shorts short poem short hair short stories about love short poems short haircuts short story short hair cuts too short short skirt short msn quotes short hair cut short stories short skirts short hairstyles short hair style short hair styles Pronunciation: h?l
v. t. 1. To pull or draw with force; to drag.
[imp. & p. p. Hauled (h?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Hauling.]
Some dance, some haul the rope.
- Denham.
Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
- Pope.
Romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
- Thomson.
2. To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
- U. S. Grant.
To haul over the coals
See under Coal.
To haul the wind
(Naut.) to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.

v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
- Cook.
2. To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.To haul around
(Naut.) to shift to any point of the compass; - said of the wind.
To haul off
(Naut.) to sail closer to the wind, in order to get farther away from anything; hence, to withdraw; to draw back.

n. 1. A pulling with force; a violent pull.
2. A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
3. That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
4. Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
5. (Rope Making) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

Noun 1. haul - the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly"
Synonyms: haulage, draw
2. haul - the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish"
Synonyms: catch
Verb 1. haul - draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
Synonyms: cart, drag, hale
2. haul - transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"

Related Words
attraction, bag, barge, blackmail, board, boat, boodle, boom, boost, booty, bring to, burden, bus, capture, cargo, carry, cart, cast loose, catch, clap on ratlines, clear hawse, coach, convey, cut loose, draft, draggle, dray, elevate, ferry, float, freight, graft, hale, harvest, haul down, haul off, haul the wind, haul to, haul up, head to windward, heave, heave apeak, heave round, heave short, heave to, hoist, hot goods, kedge, lading, lay, lay aloft, lift, lighter, load, log, loot, lug, move, overexert, overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress, overtax, overtaxing, payload, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, press, prize, public till, public trough, rack, raft, raise, ratline down, remove, sail to windward, seizure, shift, ship, sled, sledge, snake, spar down, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, strain, strain every nerve, straining, stream the log, stress, stress and strain, stressfulness, stretch, swag, sweat blood, take, take in tow, tax, taxing, tense, tension, till, tow, trail, train, transport, traverse a yard, trawl, troll, truck, tug, unlash, uphelm, van, wagon, warp, weather, wheelbarrow, yield More Related Words and Usage Samples
u haul hitches discount haul u long haul u haul truck haul site u web haul rent u heavy haul trucking box haul u haul price u auto haul u haul truck moving haul over heavy haul trucking long haul com haul u u haul moving long haul jeans haul away joe u haul rentals coupon haul u haul rate u rope rescue haul systems airfrance medium haul hitch haul haul rental trailer u haul location mass haul calculation haul location u dealer haul medium haul haul haul storage u haul trailer u canada haul u rope rescue knot pass haul system haul truck u haul truck rental u haul rental co haul u u haul