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Definition of Puller

1. Noun. Someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself.

2. Noun. Someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something.

Definition of Puller

1. n. One who, or that which, pulls.

Definition of Puller

1. Noun. Anything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Puller

1. one that pulls [n -S] - See also: pulls

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puller

pulla pullable pullbacks pulldown pulldowns pulled pulled a train pulled one's head in pulled one's own weight pulled one's weight

pulled over pulled pork pulled teeth pulled together puller (current term) puller-outer pullers pullet pullets pulley

pulley-block pulleys pullicate pullicates pullies pullikins pulling pulling a train pulling one's head in

Literary usage of Puller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"She died and later Alberson died leaving puller his sole heir, If puller was ... puller conveyed to the plaintiff. The defendants denied the marriage and If ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"(a) puller and Another v. Halliday. 12 East, 494. June 29, 1810. Where a ship was chartered to take a cargo of lead from London to St. ..."

3. A System of the Shipping and Navigation Laws of Great Britain: And of the by Francis Ludlow Holt (1824)
"puller. LIII In g^ vp,^ (c) ^ Court of Common Pleas pronounced another decision upon the same principle. The circumstances of this case were, indeed, ..."

4. Automobile Repairshop Short-cuts: Over 1500 Time and Labor-saving Kinks by Motor World (1918)
"776) STEERING WHEEL puller A simple form of steering wheel puller is shown ... The hub of the puller is first screwed into place and then the screw is ..."

5. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... and within the earth, whom the earth does not know, whose body the earth is, and who pulls (rules) the earth within, he is thy Self, the puller ..."

6. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1869)
"puller (3). Vertue v. Jewel l (4) shews that where goods are consigned on account of a general balance, the consignor has no right to stop them in transitu. ..."

7. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"... on the scale made possible by great wealth Illustrated iQ colors I jfl The puller-down of Trees CHARLES GD ROBERTS i Fourth instalment of the romance of ..."

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