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pulled, ppl. a.|pʊld| [f. pull v. + -ed1.] 1. a. Plucked (as feathers, fruit, flowers).
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 19 Bolsters and pillows made..of scalded feders and drie pulled feders to gedre. 1903Kipling Five Nations 40 To a couch of new-pulled hemlock. b. Of wool. orig. N. Amer.
1904J. M. Matthews Textile Fibres ii. 24 There is a certain class of wool..known in trade as pulled wool; this is obtained from the pelts of slaughtered sheep, and is usually removed from the skin by the action of time, the fibres being pulled out by the roots. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Oct. 15/2 The market for pulled wools continues dull. 1934J. R. Hind Woollen & Worsted Raw Materials iii. 19 The removal of the wool is done by plucking or flipping the wool from the skins, which has given these wools the name of ‘flipe’ or ‘slipe’. In the American wool trade, skin wool is known as ‘pulled wool’. 1952H. Haigh Work of Woolman vii. 60 The class called ‘English Pulled’ or ‘Scotch Pulled’ includes many varieties of wool. 1963E. M. Pohle in W. von Bergen Wool Handbk. (ed. 3) I. ix. 668 The domestic production of pulled wool in 1944 reached an all time high of 74 million pounds. 2. Denuded of feathers, etc., as a bird; plucked; stripped of wool or hair, as a skin or hide. pulled fowl, fowl baked, then skinned and boned, and the flesh cut up and put into a rich white sauce.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 177 He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 516 To suelly the in stede of a pullit hen. 1682Dryden Satyr 190 So by old Plato man was once defin'd, Till a pull'd Cock that Notion undermin'd. 189719th Cent. Nov. 736 The other half is covered with pulled skins waiting to be taken into ‘shop’. 3. a. Drawn; moved, extended, etc., by pulling. pulled bread, irregular pieces pulled from the inside of a newly baked loaf, which are put into the oven again, and re-baked till crisp. pulled elbow: see quot. 1902. pulled work (see quot.).
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 402 Toast or ‘pulled’ bread or biscuits often well replace bread. 1902Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. Epit. Curr. Lit. 58 The abnormal condition known as ‘pulled elbow’...supposed to be due to subluxation of the head of the radius. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage ii. 48 Pulled work. For this holes are made without withdrawing threads from the ground fabric, but, as the name implies, by pulling and distorting the weave. Ibid. iii. 77 (caption) Detail of a tablecloth in pulled work, with a border of famous London buildings. b. Cricket and Golf. See pull v. 18.
1891Field 7 Mar. 349/1 ‘Pulled’ balls will invariably meet with punishment in some shape or form. 1897Blackw. Mag. Sept. 387/1 Hoylake may exact a sterner punishment for a ‘sliced’ or ‘pulled’ ball. 4. (Also pulled down.) Reduced in health and strength, or depressed in spirits; ‘dragged’; fagged. Cf. pull v. 25 d.
1616W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals ii. i. 14 In his flesh pull'd downe As hee had liu'd in a beleaguerd towne. 1801Nelson Let. 2 May in Sotheby's Catal. 15 June (1897) 20 I am dreadfully pulled down. 1831Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 224 Found him looking a good deal pulled. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 334 His leg [is] now really fairly well, but he looks pulled. 1895A. W. Pinero Second Mrs. Tanqueray 88 You look dreadfully pulled down. We poor women show illness so plainly in our faces. |