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PULLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("puller" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Derivation:
pull (cause to move by pulling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("puller" is a kind of...):
mover (someone who moves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "puller"):
wrester (someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements)
jerker; yanker (someone who gives a strong sudden pull)
Derivation:
pull (apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion)
Context examples:
“I didn’t sign for boat-puller, sir,” was the reply.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
An’ God knows where I’ll get another boat-puller!
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The boat-puller obeyed, taking a turn around the little forward thwart and paying the line as it jerked taut.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“But we’ll make sailors out of them, or boat-pullers at any rate. Now, what of the lady?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He shakes his head dubiously over the outlook for the man Johnson, who is boat-puller in the same boat with him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Pack up your kit and go for’ard into the fo’c’sle. You’re a boat-puller now. You’re promoted; see?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Somebody strike a light, my thumb’s out of joint,” said one of the men, Parsons, a swarthy, saturnine man, boat-steerer in Standish’s boat, in which Harrison was puller.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“So it was you, was it, you black beggar?” belligerently demanded one Kelly, an Irish-American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat-puller for Kerfoot.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
