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pull-
the stem of pull v. (or pull n.2) in comb.
1. With advbs., forming ns. or adjs., as pull-along, pull-away, pull-down, pull-on, pull-through, pull-to; (a) n. the act of pulling in the direction specified; (b) adj. that pulls or is pulled in the direction specified; pull-apart, the action or result of being pulled in opposite directions so as to be ruptured; pull-on, a garment without fasteners that is pulled on; pull-out, withdrawal from an undertaking or affair; pull-through: see quot, 1891; pull-to, (a) in Weaving = lay-cap (see lay n.8 1 b); (b) see quot. 1899. Also pull-back, -down, -in, -off, -out, -over, -up, q.v.
1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 829/2 *Pull-along engine for child to ride in..25/-. 1967Punch 6 Dec. p. xii, Buy beautifully made wooden pull-along toys for tiny children.
1951Special Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleontologists & Mineralogists No. 2. 89 (caption) ‘*Pull-apart’ developed in a laminated bed of clay lying on gravel bed and covered by silts. 1954Sun (Baltimore) (B ed.) 6 Feb. 2/5 As the concrete sets these wires are tightened by special jacks, thus..getting rid of the pull-apart tendency in advance. 1971Nature 2 July 21/1 Fig. 3 shows the initial opening of the proto-North Atlantic Ocean and the pull-apart of North and South America.
1899M. Kingsley W. Africa App. i. 446 Turning with an appealing look to the trader, he points out the bareness of the royal *pull-away boys. 1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Pract. Cats 17 Abandoning their sampans, and their *pullaways and junks, They battened down the hatches on the crew within their bunks. 1950[see last-resort s.v. last a. C 2]. 1976Drive May–June 90/2 A fuss-free pullaway from 20mph in top gear and an 11sec time from 30–50mph highlight the car's impressive flexibility.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 172/1 Electric Indicator... *Pull-down Replacement, consisting of 11/4 yds. brass chain, pulley and ring. 1971J. Henderson Copperhead (1972) vi. 76 There was a Leitz slide-projector..and.. a pull-down screen. 1978Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 15/2 The pull-down compartment in the front holds six transparent pockets for credit cards.
1919in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing (1952) v. 156 The vogue of the *pull-on is still predominant. 1921Glasgow Herald 25 May 4/7 The turban..does not hide all the hair as do the pull-on hat, the cloche, and other popular shapes. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 June 7-a/1 (Advt.), Debonair styling in delightful prints. Have yours in a V-neck pull-on with roll-up sleeves. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 36 (Advt.), Pull-on pants in petite and average lengths, $15.
1891Pall Mall G. 3 Feb. 2/3 Orders have been issued that a ‘*pull-through’ is always to be used in future, this consisting of a piece of stout gimp or similar material with which the tow or rag for clearing the barrel is pulled through from breech to muzzle. How long will this ‘pull through’ last on service? 1906Blackw. Mag. Apr. 533/2 Running a pull-through down the barrel of his rifle.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pull-to (Weaving), the upper part of the lay, lathe, or batten, which is used to beat up the weft. Also called the lay-cap. 1899H. C. Hart in Phil. Soc. Trans. 11 The weed is dragged in to the beach as it floats near with a pull-to, a very long-handled, two-pronged fork with bent or hooked tines.
2. With ns.: used attrib. in sense ‘used by, for, or in pulling’, = pulling vbl. n. 5; as pull-line, pull-rod, pull-trigger, or ‘for pulling, moved by pulling’, as pull-engine, pull-toy; also pull-bell, a bell rung by a cord, as distinct from a handbell; pull-boat, a boat that is propelled by pulling a rope; also U.S., a motorized flat-boat which draws logs over water; also attrib.; pull-bone U.S. = wish-bone s.v. wish n.1 4; pull-cock, a tap worked by pulling a handle or lever (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); pull-cord, a cord which operates a mechanism when pulled (in quots. attrib.); pull-crow, † pul-crow a., for pulling crows: cf. pull v. 5; pull-date N. Amer., the date stamped on a container of perishable goods indicating when it must be withdrawn as no longer suitable for sale; pull-devil, a bundle of fish-hooks fastened back to back, to be jerked through a shoal of fish (Cent. Dict. 1890); pull-drive = pull-stroke; pull-hitter U.S. Baseball (see quot. 1955); pull-iron, (a) in a horse-drawn car, the iron tongue by which the swingletree is attached to the car; (b) in a railway car, a bolt or lug to which the chain of a draught horse may be attached (Cent. Dict.); pull-piece, a string or wire by which a clock may be made to strike at will; pull-stroke, (a) pull n.2 2 f; (b) in other technical senses, a stroke (of an oar, etc.) effected by pulling towards oneself; pull-switch, a switch operated by means of a pull-cord; pull-tab, a device, usu. comprising a ring and short tongue of metal, by means of which a tin may be opened; also attrib.; pull-tail, pull-tow (dial.): see quots.
1552Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees No. 97) 53 One litle *puyll bell. 1919R. Macaulay Three Days 52 How a pull-bell clangs when it rings!
1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Jan. 172/2 It is a treat to see a powerful young Dutchwoman handle a rope on a *pull-boat. 1903Sci. Amer. 17 Oct. 276/3 In the cypress swamps of Louisiana there are employed what are known as pull-boats, an evolution from the plan of placing a hoisting engine upon a scow and snaking the logs out of the swamp... The endless-rope pull-boat engines have 44-inch winding drums.
1907‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp 136 In her mind she could hear the girls shrieking over a *pullbone.
1963Listener 28 Feb. 399/1 It should be..fitted with either a *pull-cord switch or one outside the door. 1978Lancashire Life Nov. 177/1 (Advt.), Mahogany Bracket clock—hour strike and pull⁓cord repeat.
1973Black Panther 7 Apr. 14/2 What food manufacturer would be so foolhardy as to place his produce bearing a pack date alongside a competitor who uses a *pull date. 1977Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 Aug. 2/4 All whipped butter..bearing the pull date of Sept. 12, 1977, or before is being recalled.
1905Athenæum 18 Nov. 383/2 Like the hook-stroke and the *pull-drive, it is well illustrated here. 1907Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 7/3 He played for runs. Most famous of all his strokes was his pull-drive.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1072/2 The *Pull Engine. With rubber composition tyres{ddd}each 16/3.
1937Philadelphia Record 2 Sept. 17/1 Medwick hits to all fields. DiMaggio is mostly a *pull hitter. 1955Amer. Speech XXX. 153 The term pull hitter denotes a hitter who pulls the ball (i.e., a right-handed hitter who hits to left field or a left-handed hitter who hits to right field). 1972N.Y. Times 4 June v. 2/7 He is primarily a pull hitter to left and some teams stack defensive alignments against him.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pull-iron, the piece at the hind end of the tongue of a street-car by which it is attached to the car.
1878M. Browne Pract. Taxidermy ii. 25 There are..two unattached cords of some strength, called the *pull line and the forked line, which latter is attached..to the two staves nearest the bird catcher at the intersection of the top line.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pull-piece (Horology), the wire or string..by pulling which the clock is made to strike.
1903Motor. Ann. 296 Look for stretch in the *pull-rods, and wear off the braking surfaces.
1897K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 120 He..applies a marvellous *pull-stroke to good-length balls just outside the off-stump. 1904Daily Chron. 25 Aug. 7/3 Trott was run out through running a doubtful one off a pull stroke of his partner's that soared, only to be dropped by Blythe. 1968J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 74 All the ‘work’ of a cross-cut is done on the pull-stroke [of the saw], each man alternately pulling and releasing. 1969Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. li. 10 Pull stroke,..a stroke whereby the kayakist leans far forward, thrusts the paddle into the water and with extreme exertion pulls the kayak forward.
1888D. Salomons Managem. Accumulators (ed. 3) ii. ii. 97 The Browett *pull switch is fixed near the cornice, and by pulling a cord, the light is put on; also turned off by a similar action. 1971D. Bagley Freedom Trap vi. 130 The light switch in the bathroom was operated, as good building regulations insist, by a ceiling pull-switch from which a strong cord hung to a convenient hand level.
1965Economist 5 June 1150/1 The successful development of *pull-tab tops for beer tins, so that they can be opened by hand rather than with an opener. 1978J. Updike Coup vi. 239 Take care..not to drop the pull⁓tab [on a can of soft drink], once removed, back into the can.
1891T. Hardy Tess xliii, She..reclined on a heap of *pull-tails—the refuse after the straight straw had been drawn—thrown up at the further side of the barn.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, *Pull-tow, pull-tow-knots, the coarse and knotty parts of the tow, which are carefully pulled out and thrown aside, before it is fit to be spun into yarn.
1946Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 14/6 Wagons and other *pull-toys should have rope handles. 1958J. G. MacGregor North-West of 16 v. 60, I was at the pull-toy stage. I went everywhere dragging behind me a fascinating collection of tin cans, bits of roots..all tied together with string. 1978Neiman, Marcus Christmas Bk. 83 A purple cow pull toy, complete with the N-M brand.
1895Daily News 17 July 2/1 The range officers began testing the *pull triggers for all who had made scores of 86 and upwards.
3. Forming phraseological combs. functioning either as ns. or adjs., as pull-and-push adj. phr. = push-and-pull adj. phr. b.
1950Railway Mag. XCVI. 101 (caption) Dolgelly to Barmouth pull-and-push train approaching Barmouth Tunnel. 1959H. Ellis Brit. Railway Hist. II. ii. i. 252 The Great Western and the South Western fought it [sc. the electric train] with steam rail motors and pull-and-push trains. 1968Railway Mag. CXIV. 300/1 Pull-and-push trials on the G.N. main line..began in January.
▸ pull-quote n. Typogr. and Journalism (orig. and chiefly U.S.) a brief and striking quotation taken from the main text of an article and used as a subheading or graphic feature, usually in a distinctive typeface; (also) a striking quotation used as a caption or graphic feature in an advertisement.
1986F. E. Davis et al. Desktop Publishing iii. 46 You can break up a page of text attractively by dropping in a..quote from the main body of text that you set apart somehow—either in a box, within rules, or surrounded by white space—to catch the readers' attention... These free-floating phrases, which are called callouts or *pull quotes, can highlight important material. 1997Church Times 28 Feb. 16/2 ‘What is happening in Jewish life is close to becoming its death throes’ was the pull-quote, and I had to read it twice before I was sure it meant anything at all. 2002Washington Post 30 July c4 A pull quote is a humble thing but sometimes it rises to the level of art, becoming a poem, or even a tiny short story, like this little gem from Elle: ‘Over seven weeks, we were falling in love, leaving bad jobs and marriages, closing deals and having multiple orgasms.’ |