Definitions for haulages

haulages haul·age

Spelling: [haw-lij]
IPA: /ˈhɔ lɪdʒ/

Haulages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in haulages (aaeghlsu).

Definitions for haulages

noun

  1. the act or labor of hauling.
  2. the amount of force expended in hauling.
  3. a charge made, especially by a railroad, for hauling equipment, commodities, etc.

Origin of haulages

First recorded in 1820-30; haul + -age

Examples for haulages

In the familiar clang of the locomotive bell, and the movement of railroad wagons which were engaged in haulage for Leaping Horse.

Both these surveyors, as well as the others, in the first place make use of the haulage rope.

The roads were bad, the tolls heavy, and the haulage expensive.

But enough of haulage machines; I will now speak of ventilating machines.

Through an adjacent doorway streams the cheerful glow of the engine-room, from which the haulage of the trucks is controlled.

It is only fair to say that the Boers themselves were masters of the art of haulage.

I'm looking for cheap timber, good snow for haulage, water-power to mill the lumber into paper-pulp, and a road to market.

The price of cotton did not matter much to the Colonel, nor the price of haulage.

Cement, including freight and haulage, cost $1.97 per barrel.

But, notwithstanding this easy mode of working the traffic, the cost of haulage is 3d.

Word Value for haulages
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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