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Puller

noun

Someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself.

Someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something. Synonyms: dragger, tugger.

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"Puller" Quotes from Famous Books

... shamelesse Warwicke, Proud setter vp, and puller downe of Kings, I will not hence, till with my Talke and Teares (Both full of Truth) I make King Lewis behold Thy slye conueyance, and ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... with Joseph Hooker, under the gallant leadership of that other hero Philip Kearney. It was very evident that but few of the speakers, as well as auditors, had themselves heard or read what I actually said. The result of "coaching" for the occasion by some wire-puller was painfully apparent. Let us see what was said. I give the entire paragraph from ...

— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge

... world, lad. It's the only life fer me, too. If I had to sit in an office all day, or around a hotel where I had to wear one of them biled shirts and a coat cut like a tack puller, I'd die, believe me! I'd rather wear a gray shirt, an' eat off ...

— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer

... simoon takes me by the brow of my pantaloons and throws me across Township 28, Range 18, West of the 5th Principal Meridian, I lose my mental reserve and become anxious and even taciturn. For thirty years I had yearned to see a grown up cyclone, of the ring-tail-puller variety, mop up the green earth with huge forest trees and make the landscape look tired. On the 9th day of September, A.D. 1884, my ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

Words linked to "Puller" : wrester, pull, worker, yanker, dragger, jerker, mover, wire-puller, tugger