Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fishing, a haul with nothing in the net but water: as, to make a water-haul, that is, catch no fish. Hence, a failure; a fruitless operation.
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Examples
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But he made at every cunning cast a barren water-haul.
Grain of Dust. 1911
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But he made at every cunning cast a barren water-haul.
The Grain of Dust David Graham Phillips 1889
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