Illustration: The Rope and Weight Attached to the Back End of the Drawer Pulls It Closed] A Cork Puller [Illustration] The stopper of any ordinary bottle can be easily removed with a puller such as shown in the sketch.
The puller is inserted between the stopper and the neck of the bottle until the hook end will pass under the bottom of the stopper, then given a quarter turn and pulled upward.
An Emergency Tack Puller One day I had to pull some tacks but had no tack puller at hand.
Illustration: The Jaws of a Vise, If They Are True, Will Make a Caliper Gauge Giving a Perfect Measurement] Homemade Tack Puller A very handy tack puller can be made of a round-head bolt.
The construction of the pullervents the cork as it enters and thus no vacuum is created.
A Staple Puller [Illustration] With nothing but ordinary tools the removing of staples is tedious and difficult work.
This makes a very powerful puller that will remove large tacks from hardwood easily.
A few years later an equally efficient freight-puller was made, creating one cylinder-horse-power per hour from 15.
But this is the testimony of an Illinois political wire-puller to Lincoln: "He was one of the shrewdest politicians in the State.
Wi[thorn] Gregory Basset, he became surety for his fellow friar Robert Puller in December, 1534 (?
A rescue force of landing craft moved with difficulty through Japanese fire, urged on by Puller who accompanied the boats on the destroyer Ballard (DD 660).
When his mortar ammunition began to run short, Puller moved on toward the beach, joining the rest of Whaling’s force, which had encountered no opposition.
Puller met Hall at the head of his column, and the two officers walked down the length of the Marine lines, peeling off an Army squad at a time to feed into the lines.
Puller soon realized his battalion was being hit by a strong Japanese force capable of repeated attacks.
Vandegrift sent the 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, forward to reinforce Puller and help provide the men needed to carry the casualties out of the jungle.
Now reinforced, Puller continued his advance, moving down the east bank of the Matanikau.
Yet it is the freight-puller and his train that are earning the money that must be used to pay the deficit on the limited that whirls by him so contemptuously.
The cab of the big passenger puller is far from a quiet place.
You're the crookedest, lyingest sheep-puller in the bunch, Jim Swope.
Now how about it, officer; how much have I got to take off this dam' sheep pullerbefore I git the right to talk back?
Puller and Water-melon Pete did not appear to notice them.
One of the prisoners was Pullerand another Andy Jimson.
But if the puller pulls first, the shover finds himself catapulted forward by his own muscular effort.
If the shover pushes first, the would-be puller gets slapped in the hand with the doorknob, sometimes resulting in a broken finger or thumb.
The boat-puller obeyed, taking a turn around the little forward thwart and paying the line as it jerked taut.
He shakes his head dubiously over the outlook for the man Johnson, who is boat- puller in the same boat with him.
Kelly, an Irish-American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat-puller for Kerfoot.
The hunter and boat-puller were both lying awkwardly in the bottom, but the boat-steerer lay across the gunwale, half in and half out, his arms trailing in the water and his head rolling from side to side.
A hundred yards away, I saw the boat-puller pass a rifle to the hunter.
Twas called a sad accident, but I met the boat-puller in Yokohama an' the straight iv it was given me.
Straight forward he raced, the boat-puller Harrison at his heels and gaining on him.
I couldn't afford to let the hunter have it, and there is a chance the boat-puller doesn't know how to steer.
When the signal was given for the "fall in," Puller and Ross were still arguing the point in dispute, and Puller told Ross to "shut up.
He at once apologised to Puller for having struck him, and added, "How will I manage to bite my cartridges the noo?
I remember riding a very hard puller belonging to Mr. Wintle, of Shanghai.
Hence we should avoid riding even the worst puller continuously on the curb, the action of which we should alternate from time to time with that of the snaffle, so as to preserve the sensibility of the jaw.
A cavesson nose-band properly put on, will shut the mouth of a puller which wants to keep it open, and will thus help the rider to control him.
The desire which a puller has to get away would probably only occur in the early part of the day when the starting rush is made, but if it were successful he would bolt among a lot of horses and be almost certain to cause an accident.
A lady should never ride a hard puller when hunting; but as some of us have to put up with what we can get, it is well to fix up a difficult mount of this kind in a manner that will keep him under control.
Mathers was simply the best organiser and wire-puller I ever met in the course of my life.
Men spoke of him as a clever wire-puller who could manufacture a spurious public sentiment in his own favour.
This was the high policy of the affair of the lackeys, which, as Addison says, held all the affairs of Europe in suspense, a policy avowed with all complacency by the high politician who was puller of the strings.
Illustration: 10 The Tooth Puller] 10 The Tooth Puller Jimmy Rabbit was always changing his mind about what he was going to be when he grew up.
Jone's man was a good strong fellow and always took the lead, but my puller was a different kind of a steed, and sometimes I was left pretty far behind.
There were two of them; one who was hired to do the talking while the real wire-puller stood aside and held the coin bag.
The daughter of a wool puller in Utica writes: "Part of the work of a wool puller could be performed by women--that of removing the wool from the skin, and sorting it according to the quality.
A wool puller in Buffalo writes: "I employ some girls in sewing sheep skins.
In ten minutes more we approach the brow of a steep declivity, and the broad Housatonic opens up to view, winding off into the misty mountains in the distance.
And there's Father Tomlinson, who keeps the post-office down by the dam, as genial an old fellow as ever wrapped up his throat in a white stock.
On every side the ferns, curled up all winter in their dormant sleep, unroll their spiral sprays, and reach out for the welcome sun.
April's woods are teeming with all forms of life, if one will only look for them.
Since that was written an excellent and cheap stumppuller has been introduced, but the account of work is still typical.
Slowly the big freight-puller rose out of its furrow in the gravel, righting itself to the perpendicular as it came.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buffer; lathe; tool
