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pully-hauly, a. and n. colloq.|ˈpʊlɪˈhɔːlɪ|
Also pulley-, -hawl(e)y, pull'e-haul'e.
[f. pull v. + haul v. + -y.]
A. adj. Consisting of, or characterized by, pulling and hauling.
B. n. The action or work of pulling and hauling.
a.1820Sporting Mag. VI. 192 It was a complete pully hawly contest on the part of Martin. 1854A. E. Baker Northants. Gloss. s.v., ‘I hate such pully-hawly-wark’.
b.1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue s.v., To have a game at pully hawly, to romp with women. 1877Q. Rev. CXLII. 69 The ropes with which the old Norsemen played their favourite game of pully-hauly against one another. 1906Temple Bar Mag. Jan. 57 There is the halliard-chanty, sung when the topsail or topgallant yards are being hoisted by pully-hauly or strength of arm.
Hence pully-ˈhaul v., to pull or haul with all one's strength; ˌpully-ˈhauling vbl. n. (in quot. 1872 applied to unskilful bell-ringing).
1872Ellacombe Ch. Bells Devon, etc. iii. 225 Hence it is, by way of ridicule, called ‘Pully hauling’. 1880Daily Tel. 30 Nov., Then commenced such a scrimmage for the mastery, such a pully-hauling and kicking of shins, as was remembered for months after. 1894Northumb. Gloss., Pully-haal, to pull by main force. 1899M. Kingsley W. African Sk. iii. 79 When the boys are pully-hauling [a tree] down the slope. |