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ˈpull-off, n. and a.
[pull- 1.]
A. n.
1. The fact or action of pulling off or of being pulled off, in various special applications.
1859Musketry Instr. 17 It is erroneous to suppose that by loosening the sear or any other pin an easier or lighter pull off is obtained. 1904Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 7/2 The Committee..were also agreed as to the drag pull-off recommended [for the rifle]. 1926Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (Brit. Engin. Stand. Assoc.) 133 Pull-off, a metal fitting attached to an ear and used on curves for adjusting the position of a trolley-wire in a horizontal plane. 1950Richmond (Va.) News-Leader 28 Jan. 1 Detailed on this maneuver chart are the Navy's plans for an all-out ‘Operation Pull-Off’ to free the U.S.S. Missouri from her Chesapeake Bay mudbank. 1953R. Knox St. Paul's Gospel i. 10 You might get the printer to give you a pull-off of that childish picture all in blue, with the yellows and the reds left out.
2. spec. in Parachuting (see quot. 1947). Also attrib.
1933National Geogr. Mag. May 614 Heels over head at the ‘pull off’... The officer climbed out on the lower wing to the outer strut and, holding on with one hand, pulled his rip cord. 1940War Illustr. 26 Jan. 20/2 The ‘pull-off’ type is used only for training novices in the ‘art’ [of parachuting]. 1947M. Newnham Prelude to Glory iv. 14 The procedure..was for the pupil..at a signal from the pilot [to] clamber along the lower wing... The pupil let go his hold on the strut, and willy-nilly he became a parachutist. This was known as the ‘pull-off’ method.
3. = lay-by n. 1 c. Cf. pull-in 2 b.
1969V. Canning Queen's Pawn iv. 63 Gilpin..was waiting in a pull-off down the road with the Land-Rover. 1972R. K. Smith Ransom vi. 264 Just after the city line as you come down the parkway there's a pull-off—a parking area. 1975V. Canning Kingsford Mark x. 163 He..parked the car on a turfed pulloff.
B. adj. Designating that which may be pulled off or from which something may be pulled off.
1902Daily Chron. 23 Dec. 3/5 A fine copy of Charles Lamb's ‘Beauty and the Beast’;..enclosed in a specially-printed paper pull-off case, on which is printed the title-page. 1962Sunday Express 7 Jan. 13/6 A pull-off calendar still showed the date. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 11 May 38/1 Much of it comes in supermarket-style cans with pull-off tops. |
