verb/a.le/
to haul, tow
Related: haleur
From Middle French haler, from Old French haler (“to pull, haul”), from Frankish *halōn (“to haul, drag, fetch”) (also Old Dutch *halōn), from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), a conflation of Proto-Indo-European *kelə- (“to lift”) and Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout, call”). Cognate with Old Frisian halia (“to get, drive home, take”), Old Saxon halōn (“to get”), Old High German halōn, holōn (“to get, fetch”) (German holen), Old English ġeholian (“to get