PULLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puller mean? 

• PULLER (noun)
  The noun PULLER has 2 senses:

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

2. someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something

  Familiarity information: PULLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("puller" is a kind of...):

mover (someone who moves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "puller"):

wrester (someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements)

jerker; yanker (someone who gives a strong sudden pull)

Derivation:

pull (apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dragger; puller; tugger

Hypernyms ("puller" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Derivation:

pull (cause to move by pulling)

 Context examples 

Had it been some other hunter’s boat-puller, he, like them, would have been no more than amused.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Even the protest of Standish arose out of the fact that he did not wish to lose his boat-puller.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Here, you!” Wolf Larsen cried suddenly to the boat-puller. “Take a turn!” At the same time he flung the coil of rope.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A hundred yards away, I saw the boat-puller pass a rifle to the hunter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Straight forward he raced, the boat-puller Harrison at his heels and gaining on him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An angry lot of men, boat-pullers and steerers as well as hunters, swarmed over our side.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“He’s your boat-puller when you’ve got him in the boat; but he’s my sailor when I have him aboard, and I’ll do what I damn well please with him.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Look here,” the hunter Standish spoke to Wolf Larsen, “that’s my boat-puller, and I don’t want to lose him.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

’Twas called a sad accident, but I met the boat-puller in Yokohama an’ the straight iv it was given me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Three, a hunter, a boat-puller, and a boat-steerer, compose a boat’s crew.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)