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单词 pully-haul
释义

pully-haulv.

Brit. /ˈpʊlɪhɔːl/, U.S. /ˈpʊliˌhɑl/
Forms:

α. 1800s pully-haul, 1800s pully-hawl, 1900s– pulley-haul.

β. 1800s pully-hawly.

γ. 1900s– pull-haul.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pull v., -y suffix1, haul v., pully-hauly n.
Etymology: In α. forms < pull v. + -y suffix1 + haul v., after pully-hauly n. In β. forms < pully-hauly n. In γ. forms < pull v. + haul v., after pully-hauly n.
colloquial. Now rare.
intransitive. To pull or haul with all one's strength. Also transitive.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > forcibly
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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.
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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).
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