pullishee
/ˈpʊlɪʃiː/(also pollyshee, puhllashee, pulleyhees) Scottish
noun
Originally: †a pulley (obsolete ). In later use: an apparatus consisting of a pole with a pulley and rope attached, used to hang clothes out of a window to dry.
Origin
Mid 17th century. Either an inferred singular of pillisies, double plural form of pulley, or a variant of pulley sheave.
- watch fob
- watchful
- watchfully
- watchfulness
- watch glass
- watch-house
- watching brief
- watchkeeper
- watch list
- watchmaker
- watchmaking
- watchman
- watchnight
- watch one's mouth
- watch one's (or someone's) back
- watch one's step
- watch someone like a hawk
- watch spring
- watch the clock
- watch the pennies
- watch the time
- watch the world go by
- watch this space
- watchtower
- watchword