pullern.

Brit.

/ˈpʊlə/, U.S.

/ˈpʊlər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pull v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < pull v. + -er suffix¹.Earliest attested as a surname.

a. A person who pulls something (down, on, together, etc.); †a plucker, gatherer, or reaper of fruit, crops, etc. (obsolete); (also) a rower, an oarsman.In quot. c1460 apparently: a person who seizes something (as land or money) from another.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > one who or that which

drawer1294

puller1332

dragger?a1500

haler1534

hauler1674

draughtsman1795

trailer1808

tractor1856

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower

reapmanOE

reaperOE

mower1225

shearer1318

puller1332

winner1352

repstera1450

harvestman1552

scytheman1577

harvester1589

sickler1638

messor1656

cradler1766

grass mower1779

thraver1813

reapa1825

bagger1844

cradle-man1889

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picker or gatherer

gathererc1384

picker1611

puller1653

potato-woman1697

food-gatherer1865

ingatherer1878

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman

rowera1382

oarman1589

oar1648

remex1674

oarsman1701

puller1824

oarer1924

sweep-swinger1949

1332 in W. F. Carter Lay Subsidy Roll Warwickshire (1926) 30 (MED) Henry le Puller.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. l. 6 My bodi I ȝaf to þe smyteres & my chekis to þe pulleris [L. vellentibus].

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 38 Pluckers awey of them [sc. church lands, rents, etc.], and pullers [L. distractores]..to be i-dampned we denunce.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes xxiv. 713 The puller downe, and banisher of newe deuises, counterfeit, naughtie, vnlawfull, and impure doctrines.

1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies v. 154 A certaine Iustice on the confines of Wales was an earnest puller down of Crosses.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 157 Proud setter vp, and puller downe of Kings.

a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women v. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 68 I was but a pumper, that is a puller on of Gentlemens Pumps.

1653 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved (new ed.) ii. xxxvii. 245 As soon as the seed of the rest begins to change then get pullers amain;..& note, you were better to gather them [sc. hops] too early than too late.

1704 W. Nelson Office & Authority Justice of Peace 268 Pullers up of Fruit-Trees.

1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens Brentford iv. i. 63 A Peach that charms the Puller, And Cherries your own Colour.

1765 C. Varlo Treat. Agric. i. iii. 18 Arrange your pullers all in a row, at one side of the field, let every puller take about two yards broad.

1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. III. 134 The boat came ashore with four pullers.

1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 i. 174 The pullers walk in the furrows, between the ridges.

1885 E. Lynn Linton Stabbed in Dark iv It was a heavy climb, even with the pullers and pushers.

1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 243 In the blue twilight the puller of strings..Tumbling his puppets away.

1971 A. Sampson New Anat. Brit. 560 The Birds Eye men regard themselves as pullers-together of a hopelessly disorganised profession.

1993 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Winter 6/2 A puller spends a lot of time with his paddle, and I wanted mine to feel good.

b. A person who pulls something as part of a particular technical or industrial process. Often with prefixed word specifying the thing pulled.fur-, pole-, tooth-puller, etc.: see the first element.

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > one who pulls press

puller1683

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [noun] > worker with furs > involved in specific process

beaver-cutter1725

Northman1793

fur-puller1886

puller1890

pointer1929

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 320 The Puller Lays on Sheets, Lays down the Frisket, Lays down the Tympans and Frisket, Runs in the Carriage, [etc.].

1729 R. Bradley Riches of Hop-garden xix. 94 One Room to receive your green Hops from the Pullers, and the third to receive the Hops when they are dryed or kilned.

1798 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Southern Counties II. 69 The workpeople..are divided into pickers and ‘pole pullers’, and formed into sets, as in Kent.

1839 J. Brown Lett. (1907) 46 A good tooth-puller can pull with any key or claw.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Aug. 7/1 Fur-pulling is hard and dirty work... At the best, the pullers can only earn 11s. or 12s. a week.

1894 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 2nd Ser. 198 He was his own puller, collater, sewer, forwarder, headbander, coverer, and finisher [in bookbinding].

1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 114 A wire cutter, splicer, and staple-puller combined.

1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen v. 131 The puller, who kept his hands clean, placed a sheet of damp paper on the tympan.

1995 Leisureways Apr. 40/3 Horst spent a couple of months on the set as a cable puller.

c. With preceding adjective: an animal or vehicle that pulls something, considered in respect of its ability to do so.

ΚΠ

1822 Times 13 Aug. 3/4 The horse was warranted a good puller.

1899 Landmark (Statesville, N. Carolina) 27 Oct. The dog is a good puller, but cannot resist the temptation to growl at every smaller dog that he chances to meet.

1919 Times 13 Sept. 13/1 (advt.) Notable sale by auction of useful commercial lorries... Makes include..F.W.D. (good pullers—a similar lorry with trailer took 17 tons to the top of Crouch Hill, N.).

1920 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 2 Jan. (advt.) For sale—Good, sound, heavy work team... Pull anything. Also one team of mules, good pullers.

1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 20/2 Behind her was Split,..a descendant of one of Rasmussen's sled dogs. Then there was Amagal, a big, dependable puller.

1990 Wheels & Tracks No. 32. 13/1 The ‘Jeep’ was a good puller and had a pintle hook for towing trailing equipment.

†2. puller out n. = pullings-out n. at pulling n. 3a. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of

poke1402

foresleeve1538

long sleeve1538

lumbard1542

puller out1543

maunch1550

hand sleeve1585

French sleeve1592

poke sleeve1592

puff1601

trunk sleeve1603

stock-sleeve1611

hoop-sleeve1614

puff sleevec1632

short sleeve1639

hanging sleeve1659

engageants1690

jockey-sleeve1692

pudding-sleeve1704

Amadis1814

gigot1824

leg of mutton1824

bishop sleeve1829

mutton-leg sleeve1830

balloon sleeve1837

gigot-sleeve1837

bag-sleeve1844

pagoda sleeve1850

mameluke sleeve1853

angel sleeve1859

elbow-sleeve1875

sling-sleeve1888

sleevelet1889

pagoda1890

bell-sleeve1892

kimono sleeve1919–20

dolman1934

1543 Acct. Jan. in Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 96 A payr of wrought Sleves, & pullers out for an Italian gowne wrought.

3. A device or machine for pulling something.Also as the final element in compounds.

ΚΠ

1593 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1998) (modernized text) XI. 5 A grindle stone with an iron winch, 2 mattocks, a broom puller, a table to lay cheese on.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 425/2 The Volsella, or Puller, or Tweezers..is an Instrument..by which they take forth a peece of a bone which is corrupt and moueable.

1797 N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 21 Jan. (advt.) A..fashionable assortment of the best London plated ware..boot pullers, razors, corkscrews [etc.].

1863 V. Penny Employments of Women 288 Manufacturer of needle threaders, wick pullers, and pencil sharpeners.

1892 Daily News 28 June 5/3 The pullers are stated to be fixed at the end of the rows, in suchwise that each machine is pulling over 50 punkas.

1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook viii. 98/1 Remove the wheels and hub caps using the special puller.

1996 S. Oxf. Courier 12 Sept. 12/7 (advt.) Sykes Pickavant service kit, various internal and external pullers, steel carrying box, new and unused.

†4. puller on n. something which encourages or is conducive to a particular action, state of affairs, etc.; spec. a foodstuff that produces thirst (cf. to pull on 2 at pull v. Phrasal verbs). Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > [noun] > something which provokes thirst

puller on1598

1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. x. 109 The Diuine iustice shal haue so many pricks, motiues, and pullers on for reuengement, as there hath been sinnes committed in thys world.

?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World 68 A seruice of shooing~hornes..of all sorts, salt-cakes, red-herrings, Anchoues, and Gammons of Bacon,..and aboundance of such pullers on.

1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 328 An incitement to appetite..was also technically termed a puller-on, and a shoeing-horn in drink.

5. A horse that habitually strains at the bit. Cf. pull v. 15c.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > pulling against bit > horse that pulls

puller1849

1849 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxiv, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 117 Mr. Wake rolled the thong of his whip round the stick, to be better able to encounter his puller.

1880 M. E. Braddon in World 14 Jan. 15 He's one of the best horses I ever rode, but a confounded puller.

1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Nov. 813/2 He [sc. a hunter] was naturally a little headstrong, and a mutton-fisted stable-boy speedily made of him an incurable puller.

1990 G. H. Morris Hunter Seat Equitation (ed. 3) i. ii. 23 The keen horse..ignores the fixed hand, leans on the bit and becomes a puller.

2005 Racing Post (Nexis) 29 Nov. The Iron Giant..is ex-Aidan O'Brien; he's a strong puller but has taken to jumping.

6. Originally (North American): a person employed to attract passers-by into a shop (frequently more fully as puller-in). Later also more generally: a person who or thing which attracts custom or interest.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who attracts customers into shop

clicker1699

inviter1837

puller1885

1885 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 8/3 He had formerly been a peddler, but later became a sidewalk ‘puller-in’ for a Baxter-street clothing store.

1894 J. L. Ford Lit. Shop ix. 132 The Jewish old-clothing quarter that lies close to the Five Points is near by. The ‘pullers-in’, as the sidewalk salesmen are termed in the vernacular of the trade, transact business with a ferocity that can be best likened to that of Siberian wolves.

1909 Coshocton (Ohio) Daily Age 14 Dec. 4/1 Some one asked Mr. Wanamaker why he considered the newspapers the greatest and best ‘puller’ for the merchant.

1928 Sunday Disp. 15 July 14/3 Next to the Prince of Wales, Shaw is the best box-office puller in the United States.

1970 J. H. Gray Boy from Winnipeg 199 Any country family that stopped to look at something in a window was doomed. The ‘puller’ would come out and sweet-talk them into the store.

1987 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. The 55-year free travel perk must be a powerful puller in the grandparent bracket.

7. Cricket. A batter who pulls shots (see pull v. 31).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman

sticker1832

short runner1833

punisher1846

slogger1850

blocker1851

cutter1851

swiper1853

top scorer1860

stick1863

left-hander1864

smiter1878

centurion1886

driver1888

pad-player1888

poker1888

spectacle-maker1893

back-player1897

hooker1900

under-runner1903

puller1911

square cutter1920

straight driver1925

stroke-maker1927

goose-gamer1928

stroke-player1935

flasher1936

sweeper1961

tonker1977

1911 P. F. Warner Bk. of Cricket xiii. 208 He has a lovely shot over extra-cover's head,..and on a slow wicket is a fine puller and hooker.

1972 Cricket World i. 8/2 Keith has long been regarded as only a puller, hooker and cutter but, last season, developed so much that he also drove strongly.

2006 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 18 May 54 [He] pitched far too short and wide to one of the best pullers and cutters in the county game.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	puller
释义	pullern. Brit. /ˈpʊlə/, U.S. /ˈpʊlər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pull v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < pull v. + -er suffix¹.Earliest attested as a surname. 1. a. A person who pulls something (down, on, together, etc.); †a plucker, gatherer, or reaper of fruit, crops, etc. (obsolete); (also) a rower, an oarsman.In quot. c1460 apparently: a person who seizes something (as land or money) from another. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > one who or that which drawer1294 puller1332 dragger?a1500 haler1534 hauler1674 draughtsman1795 trailer1808 tractor1856 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower reapmanOE reaperOE mower1225 shearer1318 puller1332 winner1352 repstera1450 harvestman1552 scytheman1577 harvester1589 sickler1638 messor1656 cradler1766 grass mower1779 thraver1813 reapa1825 bagger1844 cradle-man1889 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picker or gatherer gathererc1384 picker1611 puller1653 potato-woman1697 food-gatherer1865 ingatherer1878 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman rowera1382 oarman1589 oar1648 remex1674 oarsman1701 puller1824 oarer1924 sweep-swinger1949 1332 in W. F. Carter Lay Subsidy Roll Warwickshire (1926) 30 (MED) Henry le Puller. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. l. 6 My bodi I ȝaf to þe smyteres & my chekis to þe pulleris [L. vellentibus]. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 38 Pluckers awey of them [sc. church lands, rents, etc.], and pullers [L. distractores]..to be i-dampned we denunce. 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes xxiv. 713 The puller downe, and banisher of newe deuises, counterfeit, naughtie, vnlawfull, and impure doctrines. 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies v. 154 A certaine Iustice on the confines of Wales was an earnest puller down of Crosses. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 157 Proud setter vp, and puller downe of Kings. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women v. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 68 I was but a pumper, that is a puller on of Gentlemens Pumps. 1653 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved (new ed.) ii. xxxvii. 245 As soon as the seed of the rest begins to change then get pullers amain;..& note, you were better to gather them [sc. hops] too early than too late. 1704 W. Nelson Office & Authority Justice of Peace 268 Pullers up of Fruit-Trees. 1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens Brentford iv. i. 63 A Peach that charms the Puller, And Cherries your own Colour. 1765 C. Varlo Treat. Agric. i. iii. 18 Arrange your pullers all in a row, at one side of the field, let every puller take about two yards broad. 1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. III. 134 The boat came ashore with four pullers. 1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 i. 174 The pullers walk in the furrows, between the ridges. 1885 E. Lynn Linton Stabbed in Dark iv It was a heavy climb, even with the pullers and pushers. 1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 243 In the blue twilight the puller of strings..Tumbling his puppets away. 1971 A. Sampson New Anat. Brit. 560 The Birds Eye men regard themselves as pullers-together of a hopelessly disorganised profession. 1993 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Winter 6/2 A puller spends a lot of time with his paddle, and I wanted mine to feel good. b. A person who pulls something as part of a particular technical or industrial process. Often with prefixed word specifying the thing pulled.fur-, pole-, tooth-puller, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > one who pulls press puller1683 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [noun] > worker with furs > involved in specific process beaver-cutter1725 Northman1793 fur-puller1886 puller1890 pointer1929 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 320 The Puller Lays on Sheets, Lays down the Frisket, Lays down the Tympans and Frisket, Runs in the Carriage, [etc.]. 1729 R. Bradley Riches of Hop-garden xix. 94 One Room to receive your green Hops from the Pullers, and the third to receive the Hops when they are dryed or kilned. 1798 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Southern Counties II. 69 The workpeople..are divided into pickers and ‘pole pullers’, and formed into sets, as in Kent. 1839 J. Brown Lett. (1907) 46 A good tooth-puller can pull with any key or claw. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Aug. 7/1 Fur-pulling is hard and dirty work... At the best, the pullers can only earn 11s. or 12s. a week. 1894 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 2nd Ser. 198 He was his own puller, collater, sewer, forwarder, headbander, coverer, and finisher [in bookbinding]. 1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 114 A wire cutter, splicer, and staple-puller combined. 1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen v. 131 The puller, who kept his hands clean, placed a sheet of damp paper on the tympan. 1995 Leisureways Apr. 40/3 Horst spent a couple of months on the set as a cable puller. c. With preceding adjective: an animal or vehicle that pulls something, considered in respect of its ability to do so. ΚΠ 1822 Times 13 Aug. 3/4 The horse was warranted a good puller. 1899 Landmark (Statesville, N. Carolina) 27 Oct. The dog is a good puller, but cannot resist the temptation to growl at every smaller dog that he chances to meet. 1919 Times 13 Sept. 13/1 (advt.) Notable sale by auction of useful commercial lorries... Makes include..F.W.D. (good pullers—a similar lorry with trailer took 17 tons to the top of Crouch Hill, N.). 1920 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 2 Jan. (advt.) For sale—Good, sound, heavy work team... Pull anything. Also one team of mules, good pullers. 1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 20/2 Behind her was Split,..a descendant of one of Rasmussen's sled dogs. Then there was Amagal, a big, dependable puller. 1990 Wheels & Tracks No. 32. 13/1 The ‘Jeep’ was a good puller and had a pintle hook for towing trailing equipment. †2. puller out n. = pullings-out n. at pulling n. 3a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of poke1402 foresleeve1538 long sleeve1538 lumbard1542 puller out1543 maunch1550 hand sleeve1585 French sleeve1592 poke sleeve1592 puff1601 trunk sleeve1603 stock-sleeve1611 hoop-sleeve1614 puff sleevec1632 short sleeve1639 hanging sleeve1659 engageants1690 jockey-sleeve1692 pudding-sleeve1704 Amadis1814 gigot1824 leg of mutton1824 bishop sleeve1829 mutton-leg sleeve1830 balloon sleeve1837 gigot-sleeve1837 bag-sleeve1844 pagoda sleeve1850 mameluke sleeve1853 angel sleeve1859 elbow-sleeve1875 sling-sleeve1888 sleevelet1889 pagoda1890 bell-sleeve1892 kimono sleeve1919–20 dolman1934 1543 Acct. Jan. in Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 96 A payr of wrought Sleves, & pullers out for an Italian gowne wrought. 3. A device or machine for pulling something.Also as the final element in compounds. ΚΠ 1593 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1998) (modernized text) XI. 5 A grindle stone with an iron winch, 2 mattocks, a broom puller, a table to lay cheese on. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 425/2 The Volsella, or Puller, or Tweezers..is an Instrument..by which they take forth a peece of a bone which is corrupt and moueable. 1797 N.-Y. Daily Advertiser 21 Jan. (advt.) A..fashionable assortment of the best London plated ware..boot pullers, razors, corkscrews [etc.]. 1863 V. Penny Employments of Women 288 Manufacturer of needle threaders, wick pullers, and pencil sharpeners. 1892 Daily News 28 June 5/3 The pullers are stated to be fixed at the end of the rows, in suchwise that each machine is pulling over 50 punkas. 1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook viii. 98/1 Remove the wheels and hub caps using the special puller. 1996 S. Oxf. Courier 12 Sept. 12/7 (advt.) Sykes Pickavant service kit, various internal and external pullers, steel carrying box, new and unused. †4. puller on n. something which encourages or is conducive to a particular action, state of affairs, etc.; spec. a foodstuff that produces thirst (cf. to pull on 2 at pull v. Phrasal verbs). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > [noun] > something which provokes thirst puller on1598 1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. x. 109 The Diuine iustice shal haue so many pricks, motiues, and pullers on for reuengement, as there hath been sinnes committed in thys world. ?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World 68 A seruice of shooing~hornes..of all sorts, salt-cakes, red-herrings, Anchoues, and Gammons of Bacon,..and aboundance of such pullers on. 1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 328 An incitement to appetite..was also technically termed a puller-on, and a shoeing-horn in drink. 5. A horse that habitually strains at the bit. Cf. pull v. 15c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > pulling against bit > horse that pulls puller1849 1849 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxiv, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 117 Mr. Wake rolled the thong of his whip round the stick, to be better able to encounter his puller. 1880 M. E. Braddon in World 14 Jan. 15 He's one of the best horses I ever rode, but a confounded puller. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Nov. 813/2 He [sc. a hunter] was naturally a little headstrong, and a mutton-fisted stable-boy speedily made of him an incurable puller. 1990 G. H. Morris Hunter Seat Equitation (ed. 3) i. ii. 23 The keen horse..ignores the fixed hand, leans on the bit and becomes a puller. 2005 Racing Post (Nexis) 29 Nov. The Iron Giant..is ex-Aidan O'Brien; he's a strong puller but has taken to jumping. 6. Originally (North American): a person employed to attract passers-by into a shop (frequently more fully as puller-in). Later also more generally: a person who or thing which attracts custom or interest. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who attracts customers into shop clicker1699 inviter1837 puller1885 1885 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 8/3 He had formerly been a peddler, but later became a sidewalk ‘puller-in’ for a Baxter-street clothing store. 1894 J. L. Ford Lit. Shop ix. 132 The Jewish old-clothing quarter that lies close to the Five Points is near by. The ‘pullers-in’, as the sidewalk salesmen are termed in the vernacular of the trade, transact business with a ferocity that can be best likened to that of Siberian wolves. 1909 Coshocton (Ohio) Daily Age 14 Dec. 4/1 Some one asked Mr. Wanamaker why he considered the newspapers the greatest and best ‘puller’ for the merchant. 1928 Sunday Disp. 15 July 14/3 Next to the Prince of Wales, Shaw is the best box-office puller in the United States. 1970 J. H. Gray Boy from Winnipeg 199 Any country family that stopped to look at something in a window was doomed. The ‘puller’ would come out and sweet-talk them into the store. 1987 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Nov. The 55-year free travel perk must be a powerful puller in the grandparent bracket. 7. Cricket. A batter who pulls shots (see pull v. 31). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman sticker1832 short runner1833 punisher1846 slogger1850 blocker1851 cutter1851 swiper1853 top scorer1860 stick1863 left-hander1864 smiter1878 centurion1886 driver1888 pad-player1888 poker1888 spectacle-maker1893 back-player1897 hooker1900 under-runner1903 puller1911 square cutter1920 straight driver1925 stroke-maker1927 goose-gamer1928 stroke-player1935 flasher1936 sweeper1961 tonker1977 1911 P. F. Warner Bk. of Cricket xiii. 208 He has a lovely shot over extra-cover's head,..and on a slow wicket is a fine puller and hooker. 1972 Cricket World i. 8/2 Keith has long been regarded as only a puller, hooker and cutter but, last season, developed so much that he also drove strongly. 2006 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 18 May 54 [He] pitched far too short and wide to one of the best pullers and cutters in the county game. 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