α. 1800s pully-haul, 1800s pully-hawl, 1900s– pulley-haul.
β. 1800s pully-hawly.
γ. 1900s– pull-haul.
单词 | pully-haul |
释义 | pully-haulv.α. 1800s pully-haul, 1800s pully-hawl, 1900s– pulley-haul. β. 1800s pully-hawly. γ. 1900s– pull-haul. colloquial. Now rare. intransitive. To pull or haul with all one's strength. Also transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > forcibly halec1275 hurlc1305 ruga1325 windc1400 lugc1540 haul1581 pully-haul1839 snake1856 1839 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 128 Perhaps when I've pully-hauled up a bank they see me come launching down. 1854 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North 223/2 Picture to yourself so many devils..pully-hawlying away at the unresisting figure of the follower of Fox. 1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 26 Fat yellow priests began pully-haulin' the palanquins into a dharker [sic] place. 1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. iii. 79 When felling the tree you arrange..that when the boys are pully-hauling down the slope [etc.]. 1916 R. Frost Let. 15 June (1964) 38 I shan't be myself and I shall be pull-hauling in every direction. Derivatives ˈpully-hauling n. the action of pulling or hauling; (in extended use) an action which involves a great deal of effort but demonstrates little skill. ΚΠ 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon iii. 225 Hence it [sc. unskilful bellringing] is, by way of ridicule, called ‘Pully hauling’. 1880 Daily 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. 1933 Times 15 Apr. 4/6 McCorkindale added a number of stabbing lefts and upper-cuts to his pulley-hauling at close quarters. 1959 W. H. Scott-Shawe & A. Wykes Mariner's Tale 51 All the Master's skill, plus a relentless stint of pulley hauling, was needed to get any movement into the ship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1839 |
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