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A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

One who hauls.

A part of a harness; a hame.

See Hals.

See Halse.

Lofty; haughty. [Obs.] Through support of countenance proud and hault. Spenser.

See Haulm, stalk. Smart.

To enhance. [Obs.] Lydgate.

Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison. Haunch bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate. -- Haunches of an arch (Arch.), the parts on each side of the crown of an arch. (See Crown, n., 11.) Each haunch may be considered as from one half to two thirds of the half arch.

Having haunches.

to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.

Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Longfellow.

One who, or that which, haunts.

In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon.

An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.

Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis. -- n.

The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.