pulling

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• Pulling

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Pull>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Wire-pulling

  ·noun The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especiall...

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• gander-pulling

  A brutal species of amusement practised in Nova Scotia. We quote Judge Halliburton's account of it f...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pulling-time

  the evening of a fair, when the country fellows pull the wenches about. Norf. and Suff. called PULLI...

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