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🐴 A thing that pulls 🛠️ A pulling tool
puller

puller

1 4.2
A tool used to take something out of its place
  • noun
  • /ˈpʊlər/
translation icon : extractor
  • The mechanic used a special puller to remove the stubborn wheel from the car.
  • stalk puller

Includes this handy key cap and key switch puller.

Examples

  • Pullers have been designed to enhance safety while increasing speed and ease of operation.

    Academic text (1995)

  • She came in and she had this look on her face, and she was still holding this nail puller in one hand and this tool basket in the other.

    Hush (1998)

  • Give me the wheel puller.

    Super Mario Bros. (1993)

  • One was a steering wheel puller.

    Academic text (2002)

  • To remove a press-on pulley, this dedicated puller is required.

    Blog text (12)

  • At maximum spread, the puller jaws are nearly perpendicular to the workpiece.

    Academic text (1995)

  • But the stalk puller is a new conservation tillage tool for doing this in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The Super Grip-O-Matic puller features a mechanical jaw adjusting and locking mechanism in a combination two-jaw/three-jaw format.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Arrayed behind a tractor, stalk pullers resemble huge tweezers with disk-shaped tips.

    Academic text (1997)

  • PHOTO (COLOR): Field technician Emilio Chavez drives a tractor-drawn stalk puller that uproots plants after harvest.

    Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

pry
vspuller
  • Archaic
4 8.4

A long metal bar with a flat end used to lift or move heavy things

focuses on pulling or removing rather than levering or lifting objects
extractor
vspuller
  • Specialized
3 5.7

A machine or tool that removes something, for example honey from combs

is the broader hand tool for pulling or extracting rather than technical separation
plucker
vspuller
1 5.6

A person or machine that pulls things off, like feathers

is a general tool for pulling or extracting things from their place
tugger
vspuller
1 6.8

A person or machine that pulls something hard

is specifically a tool designed for pulling or extracting objects from places

Compounds

weed puller
1 3.2

A small hand tool for gardening with metal claws that removes weeds by the root

wire-puller
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who secretly controls others to get what they want

How Strong

winch
  • Specialized
20 6.6
puller
1 4.2
pliers
2.3

Surface Forms

puller singular
pullers plural

Morphology

puller = pull (transparent) = pull + er

Standard instrumental/agentive formation with -er yielding 'a tool or person that pulls', directly understandable from 'pull'.

Etymology

Puller comes from the verb pull meaning 'to pull' and the ending -er meaning 'one who or that which does'. Many tools are named this way, as in nail puller or gear puller, so a puller is a tool that pulls out or removes something from its place.