side pulln.adj.
/ˈsʌɪd pʊl/, U.S. /ˈsaɪd ˌpʊl/ A. n.
1. The action or result of pulling to the side; a pull to the side.
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1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 363/2 The saddle..being small and light will not bear much side-pull.
1866 A. H. Rockwell Improved & Pract. Syst. Educating Horse 27 As soon as the colt will step readily at a slight side pull, take off the halter..and let him go.
1893 Electrician 17 Mar. 576/1 All methods that took off the side pull of the belts gave far too favourable results of the efficiency of the machines from a mechanical point of view.
1919 Country Gentleman 22 Feb. 93/1 If the plows are hitched to the middle of the tractor drawbar, there will be a constant side pull on the plows tending to draw them farther into the unplowed land.
1927 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 115 476 A tooth is more easily uprooted by a side pull than by a normal pull.
1963 B. O. Gundling Exploring Aquatic Art xxv. 128 The arm pull in Breaststroke is usually a hybrid pull rather than a true side pull.
1989 A. Pecknold Mime (rev. ed.) 72 Of the three directions in which a rope may be pulled, to the side, from below and above, we will deal with the side pull first,..a situation somewhat like a tug-of-war.
2002 G. J. Bugh Spin Wave Technol. v. 52 The least amount of side pull on the magnets from any particular direction will make them tilt over.
2. Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. A vertical or near-vertical handhold which is located to the side of a climber, and thus cannot be pulled on in a downwards direction; a move in which a climber uses one or both hands to grip such a hold and pull towards it. Cf. side hold n. (b) at side n.1 Compounds 3.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > hold
footholea1589
fingerhold1720
handhold1726
side hold1829
toe-hole1876
push hold1904
side pull1920
under-hold1920
pressure hold1941
hand jam1948
thank God hold1955
undergrip1955
jug1957
chickenhead1961
crimp1994
1920 G. W. Young in Mountain Craft iv. 162 In connection with a foot-thrust or knee-jam the opposing side-pulls are often of use.
1967 Climber Oct. 404/2 Pinchgrips, sidepulls, difficult jams.
1987 High Mar. 46/2 The holds were tiny pockets and sidepulls.
1998 On the Edge June 36/2 You get the three finger spread and the little sidepull, you get smears for the feet and lock on.
2005 P. Kropp Avalanche ii. 15 Okay..we're going to reach the next notch... Just do a sidepull and you'll be... Yaaah!
3. Equestrianism. A side-pull bridle. See sense B. 3.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle
haltera1000
bridleOE
brake1430
gorel1480
watering bridle1502
mollet-bridle1503
headgear1538
slipe1586
chase-halter1607
branks1657
bit-bridle1676
curb-bridle1677
chain-bridle1690
blind-halter1711
ox-riem1817
blind-bridle1833
bell-bridle1836
training halter1842
hackamore1850
Pelham bridle1875
quoiler1876
knee-halter1892
war bridle1962
side pull1965
1965 L. Taylor Out of West iv. 46 Some advocate keeping the horse in the hackamore and on the plowline (side pull) much longer than I do.
1989 B. Mayhew & J. Birdsall Art Western Riding v. 60/1 Another bitless bridle is the side pull. This is..simply a waxed rope noseband which allows direct-pull reins to be attached on either side.
2004 J. Jahiel Horse Behavior Probl. Solver xii. 178 A week or two in a Bitless Bridle, English jumping hackamore, or soft, padded side pull, never hurt any horse.
4. Cycling. Chiefly in plural. A side-pull brake. See sense B. 2.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > brakes
grip-brake1885
plunger brake1892
plunger1907
side pull1972
1972 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 12 May 20/1 (advt.) A quality bike, center pull brakes or deluxe synchron side pulls w/quick release hubs.
1998 Cycling Today July 18/2 Centre-pull brakes were very popular with the top riders in the 1960s, as they offered more power and better modulation than most of the side-pulls then available.
2013 S. Tracy Bicycle! ix. 88/2 Years ago..department stores afflicted some mountain and BMX bikes with the worst sidepulls ever.
B. adj.
1. Of a lever, handle, cord, etc.: that operates by being pulled to the side. Also of a force: that exerts a sideways pull.
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1906 Horseless Age 5 Sept. 298/3 Another set of brakes of the expanding band type..act on the same set of drums and are controlled by a side pull lever on the same bracket that supports the change speed gear lever.
1916 E. A. Holbrook Dry Prepar. Bituminous Coal (Bull. 88) (University of Illinois Engin. Exper. Station) ii. 34 In the first case the headframe is said to be ‘end pull’... Headframes in the second case are ‘side pull’ and the pulleys are parallel... The frontispiece (Fig. 2) shows a side pull headframe.
1922 Railway Carmen's Jrnl. Sept. 573/2 Under cut couplers operated with side-pull uncoupling levers will meet the law even if there is only 4 ins. of a handle to take hold of [etc.].
1927 Pop. Mech. July 32/1 (heading) Side-pull window awnings fold in small space.
1977 D. Poynter Parachute Man. (ed. 2) vii. 357/1 On some side pull containers, pulls of as much as 80 lbs. have been recorded.
1985 Pop. Mech. June 140/1 (advt.) Model SS-2 fits Briggs & Stratton engines only, both horizontal and vertical shaft, equipped with a side-pull starting cord mechanism.
1996 Jrnl. Tribology 118 101 (caption) Side-pull force and approximation (N) as a function of displacement.
1999 PC Mag. 21 Sept. 236/4 With the self-running installation software you can..test available effects including side-pull force and road-surface changes.
2014 T. Gönen Electr. Power Transmission Syst. Engin. xii. 767 The attachment point of a guy should be as close as possible to the point where the resultant side pull force is imposed upon the supporting structure.
2. Cycling. Designating a type of caliper brake in which one arm is attached to and operated directly by the brake cable, with the other arm being pushed by the cable housing.
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1946 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 7 Dec. 5/1 (advt.) Brake Cables for centre and side pull brakes.
1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 21 May f2 If you want to replace the side-pull caliper breaks [sic] with stop-on-a-dime cantilever breaks, add $ 100.
2014 Times (Nexis) 25 June On the climbs, the drystone walls echo to the sound of mashing gears, on the descents, the squeal of sidepull brakes.
3. Equestrianism. Designating a type of bitless bridle in which the reins are attached to rings at the side of the muzzle, causing pressure on the horse's nose when pulled.
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1983 Equus June 106/2 Tellington-Jones often uses a side-pull hackamore called a Lindell to give an overflexed horse confidence to extend his head and neck.
1993 T. Kirksmith Western Performance iv. 89 If you already have a side-pull hackamore (it has a hard rope noseband that rolls across Primo's nose when the reins are moved, much like a bosal does), it will do quite nicely.
2010 H. S. Thomas Storey's Guide Training Horses (2013) vii. 198 (caption) This side-pull bridle with curb strap puts pressure on the nose, poll, and chin groove when the reins are pulled.
4. Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. Designating a vertical or near-vertical handhold which is located to the side of a climber, and thus cannot be pulled on in a downwards direction; (also) designating a move in which a climber uses one or both hands to grip such a hold and pull towards it.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [adjective] > type of hold
undercut1950
side pull1989
1989 M. A. Strassman Basic Essent. Rock Climbing vi. 23 You usually have to counter balance with the feet, pressing them into the rock as you pull on the side-pull hold.
2006 E. J. Hörst Learning to climb Indoors v. 50/1 The more difficult a climb, the more likely it becomes that you'll need to use side-pull arm positions. As the name implies, this position involves grabbing a hold that faces sideways and away from your body, not upward or downward.
2007 Climb Mag. May 12/1 This E5 6c was first climbed by Andy Crome and is almost a mirror image of West Side Story, the line being marked by a similar sidepull flake and the climbing by tenuous moves.
2010 R. Hammes & R. Olson in J. Steffen & J. Stiehl Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits iv. 62/1 The arms are extended to apply the weight on the skeletal system in a side-pull fashion, while the feet push off the wall or crack in opposition.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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