Puller vs Pullet - What's the difference?
puller | pullet |
Anything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism.
a tool, such as a bearing puller.
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 195:
*:The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
(slang) A spineless person; a coward.
As nouns the difference between puller and pullet
is that puller is anything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism while pullet is a young hen, especially one less than a year old.puller
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(en noun)- They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
- The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
- he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.