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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

... forgotten that somebody's regiment was about to be ordered out of the country it had been in for four years. Also because my husband was a soldier who obeyed orders without questioning them. If he had been a political wire-puller, many of our misfortunes might have been averted. But then, while I half envied the wives of the wire-pullers, I took a sort of pride in the blind obedience shown by my own particular soldier ...

— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

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... still on the counter near the shoe shelves. The old man, with a sweep of his hand, just cleaned the counter of my samples and there I was, picking them up off the floor and putting them into my grip. I felt like hitting him over the head with a nail puller but I buckled up the straps and started sliding the grip along,—it was so ...

— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson

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