Sekirov Dictionary

underpull

noun 8
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 5

noun8

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A downward pull or force.
- […] steps stretching the height of the tower carry upward the longings of men who wished to escape the underpull of time and gravity. — 1981
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Synonym of undertow.
- "He's got hold of him!" rang out, as the struggling swimmer seemed to snatch at the shoulder of the drowning man. Then an appalled murmur arose. " It's an underpull!" — 1894
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A negative influence.
- Some of the children are from the best stock of India, but some have everything against them (and the underpull of heredity can tell hardly on a child). — 2002
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A secret or indirect influence.
- Eddying against the stream of rhetoric about protection came an underpull from Dissent a force untested electorally since 1841. — 1985
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The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- During the daytime the pump is operated for 12 hours in the overpull condition, and during the night it is operated for 12 hours in the underpull condition. — 2007
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Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Half an inch (1.25 cm) of shortening due to underpull is far less serious than half an inch of lengthening with slow union due to overpull. — 1977
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A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
- Higher the climb followed the line of least resistance up a succession of slabs, flakes, and cracks, where the ordinary hold was an underpull for the hands and friction for the feet. — 1912
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A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- Am therefore suggesting, that when you have a prospective customer, not to be so exacting, not to require a concrete foundation, neither the underpull and a vent spout leading to the roof . — 1914

verb2

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To pull (any sense) insufficiently.
- The common failing is to underpull in these early hours because of fear of overpull . — 1941
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To exert one's influence secretly.
- His Lordship, while he was a Student, and during his Incapacity to practise aboveboard, was contented to underpull, as they call it, and managed diverse Suits for his Country Friends and Relations[…] — 1734

adjective1

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Designed to be pulled and mounted on the underside.
- One-piece white vitreous china flush pipe cover and white vitreous china bolt caps. White Vitreous china swelled front low down tank with underpull lever. — 1918

forms

underpulled · underpulling · underpulls · more underpull · most underpull

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