Hall or hall means the space or passageway between rooms or apartments, where the doors are--
We'll need a long narrow rug for the hall.
Tell the children not to play in the hall. It's bothering the neighbors.
Hall also means a large room for lectures, meeting or dining--
Everyone is already in the mess hall.
The hall was nearly empty on the last day of classes.
Haul or haul ( rhymes with hall ) means to pull from one place to another--
He used an eighteen-wheeler to haul the freight to California.
Everyone haul on the rope, so we can pull the boat to shore.
Haul may mean the goods that are being pulled, usually in the sense of illicit goods or winnings--
The burglars got quite a haul.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"They used a rope to haul the piano into the hall."
Note--"hall" may still be a part of some addresses, used as part of the name of a large building--
The meeting will be in College Hall.
We had to go to City Hall to get the form.
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