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Definition of Pull over
1. Verb. Steer a vehicle to the side of the road. "The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed"
Definition of Pull over
1. Verb. (idiomatic) (''intransitive'') (in a vehicle) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder). ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to pull over ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Over
Literary usage of Pull over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Electrical Engineer (1891)
"Now I want you to compare that with the case of an electromagnet where, instead
of having ihis distributed pull, you have a much stronger pull over a much ..."
2. Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series. Cases Adjudged in the Circuit Courts by Ohio Circuit Courts (1904)
"This pull-over wire is wrapped around the tree with dry boards between the ...
About thirty inches above this pull-over wire and between the insulator and ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... то HAVE A pull over ONE = to have at an advantage, in one's power, or under
one's thumb. ... They know ... who naturally have the PULL over them. 1856. ..."
4. The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms: A Handbook of Definations and by Alexander A. Stewart (1912)
"... Pull a Proof-—To take a proof; originally, to pull over the bar of a hand
press and take an impression. See Proof. Pull-Out—Types which have been pulled ..."
5. Eastern England: From the Thames to the Humber by Walter White (1865)
"Jolly Bacchus—The Pull-over—Thorpe and ... A bright breezy morning saluted us as
we trudged through the ' pull-over ..."
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