| 单词 | horse pull |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorse pull g. Originally and chiefly North American. A contest in which horses, tractors, etc., compete to pull the heaviest load over the greatest distance, or over a set distance in the shortest time. Usually with modifying word, as horse pull, tractor pull, etc. ΚΠ 1960 Lima (Ohio) News 11 July 5 (caption) Robert Fry's big heavyweight team of geldings strain on a load of several thousand pounds as they warm up for the McGuffey horse pull next Saturday. 1976 Time 27 Sept. 39/2 Tractor ‘pulls,’ in which contestants vie in hauling 30,000-lb. loads over a 300-ft. course. 1978 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 27 Nov. They're farm tractors modified for use in ‘pulls,’ rural America's answer to the city drag race. 1991 R. Krueger et al. This Land of Ours v. 183/1 It could play host to a plethora of other events, everything from international soccer to tractor pulls to Super-Cross motorcycle racing. 1999 D. Cruise & A. Griffiths Working the Land iii. 150 His beloved facility is about to be turned over to antique shows and truck pulls. 2006 Lindsay (Ont.) Daily Post (Nexis) 25 Sept. a1 His D-21 Allis-Chalmers tractor, which he uses at pulls across Ontario. < as lemmas |
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