单词 | pulling rope |
释义 | > as lemmaspulling rope a. General attributive, in the sense ‘for pulling’, as pulling hook, pulling rope, etc. ΚΠ 1558 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1982) (modernized text) I. 210 To my wife..a ladder, 2 wimbles, a chisel, a pulling hook, an adze, [etc.]. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14v A pulling hooke handsome, for bushes & broome. 1704 Inventory 12 Apr. in D.P. Dymond & A. Betterton Lavenham: 700 Years of Textile Making (1982) 94 In the Corne Chamber..A pulling hooke Carpenters Tooles. 1775 N. Kent Hints to Gentlemen 149 The [hop] poles are drawn with an instrument..called a pulling hook. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 430/1 I took 15s...for waterloo crackers and ball crackers (the common trade names), ‘waterloo’ being the ‘pulling crackers’. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 93/2 The paste [for candy] then goes to the ‘pulling-hooks’, where for five or six minutes it is pulled and twisted and repulled and retwisted. 1895 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Oct. She took the pulling-rope, and stepped out boldly at the boy's side. 1938 A. E. Clayton Performance & Design Direct Current Machines (ed. 2) xiv. 290 The coil is..formed into the correct shape on a special ‘pulling machine’. 2005 Mid-Atlantic Constr. (Nexis) 1 May 38 After hearing about a pulling rope called Custom Rope, he drove to Kiowa to ask if it would work any better in pulling his machine out of the mud. < as lemmas |
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