I was at a sporting clays shoot and some body shot the "puller" or "trapper". From Wordnik.com. [Has any of you guys ever been shot?] Reference
One trick I use when I have a "puller" is to suddenly make a 180-degree turn (i.e. turn in the opposite direction). From Wordnik.com. Reference
Figure 26 Detachment of shaft and hub by the puller. From Wordnik.com. [7. Detachment of Feather Key Joints] Reference
Wilson Mashaba of Soweto described it as a crowd-puller. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He was the archetypal behind-the-scenes man, the wire puller. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Philip Kunhardt III Discusses 'The American President' - April 8, 2000] Reference
A short length of trace chain completed his simple post-puller. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
For pulling off transmission devices a puller is being employed. From Wordnik.com. [7. Mounting and connection of motors] Reference
And for some reason, I volunteered to be the puller of said trigger. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
"Did you say this was a thread-puller?" she said, handing it to Laronia. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Owner Durga Prasad, who works as a cart puller, found Rani near his house. From Wordnik.com. [Today's Photos: Jan. 5] Reference
If it was sharp enough, I wonder if the thread-puller could make the hole, too?. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Those female-puller-model-actors Eizlan Yusoff, Norman Hakim and that other guy. From Wordnik.com. [fengh Diary Entry] Reference
Word had somehow been passed that Ayla was going to try out the new thread-puller. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
But stick with the cheapjack chin-puller smarm posing as serious commentary, Alex. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Elsewhere in India, a rickshaw-puller delivers a big model of Santa Claus to a shop. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2006] Reference
The default response would have been to fire the focus puller, but Storaro demurred. From Wordnik.com. [Thunder on the Left] Reference
The distributors say they respect the content of the film but it's not a crowd-puller. From Wordnik.com. [Sandip Roy: Slumdog vs. Milk -- The Identity Crisis] Reference
Consumer Reports recommends carrying a selection of spare fuses and a fuse puller in the car. From Wordnik.com. [7 car problems that can leave you stranded] Reference
My neighborhood pint-puller always shoots me the stinkeye when I open my MacBook by his taps. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Know-It-All: Office Pill-Popping, Blog Amending, Pub Surfing] Reference
A rickshaw puller rests in the shade at a market complex in New Delhi, India, April 11, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury Rising in India] Reference
It was sparsely populated: another Timson case in an inferior court was hardly a crowd puller. From Wordnik.com. [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]
Christians, the puller down of our gods, who teacheth numbers not to sacrifice nor worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
A rickshaw puller rests in the shade of a tree in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, May 8, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [India in Photos] Reference
By means of puller shaft and hub are drawn apart, so that the joining elements can be taken out. From Wordnik.com. [7. Undoing of Keyed Joints] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Using maybe some loop pin puller might be the best tool, but that's your call. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006] Reference
Do you know the production company is backed by Richard Scaife, master puppet puller of the rightl?. From Wordnik.com. [In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film] Reference
We had a great pulling and hauling team that year, and the greatest puller and hauler was Eddie Glass. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
In India, a rickshaw puller covers himself with a plastic sheet as he waits for customers in the rain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2009] Reference
I had a nice room with another plug-puller, and in a few days I was in the old jog -- except for the Kid. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Robinson was a worthy gentleman who happened to come out publicly on the side of a political wire-puller. From Wordnik.com. [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference
Then again, they have been willing to allow him to be a puller down and destroyer, but not a builder and planter. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
A bone saw, rib puller, meat hook and of course an array of knives all freshly sharpened against a water stone. From Wordnik.com. [A Butcher's Tale] Reference
Ayla had her sewing case out and was showing them the thread-puller she had developed with the help of the Lion Camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Sierra, and, like John Phoenix's old lady who had her whole osseous system removed by the patent tooth-puller, departs, leaving her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
O hero amongst men, as a wooden doll is made to move its limbs by the wire-puller, so are creatures made to work by the Lord of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
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