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▪ I. pulls, n. pl.1 north. dial.|pʊlz|
[app. = MDu., MFlem. pöle, peule, puele, pole, Du. peul husk, shell, pod.]
The chaff or husks of rapeseed, pulse, or grain.
1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 40 The seed is cured..in the chaff or pods—provincially, ‘pulls’. Ibid. Gloss., Pulls, the shells or chaff of rape and other pulse. 1877Holderness Gloss., Pulls, the husks of oats.
▪ II. pulls, n. pl.2
[f. pull v.]
Short straw which falls out when the straight straw is drawn; also called pull-tails: see pull- 2; also, heads of corn broken off from the stalks in threshing.
1844Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. i. 268 The straw here weighed..does not include the short and broken, which goes away in what is technically termed ‘falls’ or pulls. 1876Mid-Yorks. Gloss., Pulls, most usually applied to the heads of corn dispersed on a barn-floor, after thrashing. |