Home › Words › L › longhaullonghaul/ˈlɒŋhɔːl/longhaul means to travel a long distance.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, longhaul ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.longhaul is pronounced /ˈlɒŋhɔːl/.EtymologyFrom long haul.verbTo travel a long distance.To transport goods over long distances.e.g.“Q. What would the Denver & Rio Grande Western get if it hauled that same car from Salt Lake to Pueblo and longhauled it to Santa Fe on its own branch? / A. About 26 or 27 cents.” — 1941, Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico: Hearings before a SubcommiDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.longhauling 86% match — The act of travelling long distances. vs longhaul →longhauled 77% match — That has been transported long distances. vs longhaul →haulage 58% match — The act of hauling. vs longhaul →haulier 57% match — A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods. vs longhaul →crosshaul 54% match — The transportation of goods away from a locality while similar goods are simultaneously transported into the same locality, often resulting in inefficiencies. vs longhaul →layover 54% match — A break between stages of a journey. vs longhaul →backhaul 53% match — To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted. vs longhaul →extralong 53% match — Much longer than usual. vs longhaul →