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  • noun Plural form of pully.

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Examples

  • It has about a 150# pull so I had to fabricate a contraption to pull the string with pullies, the notion that handicapped people who can't pull a bow should use an xbow is kinda unrealistic.

    On Crossbows During the Regular Bow Season 2010

  • Had to fab up a cocker of pullies and ropes 'n hooks to shoot it, couldn't draw the thing by hand with my arms.

    New Jersey Approves Crossbows For Archery Deer 2009

  • Had to fab up a cocker of pullies and ropes 'n hooks to shoot it, couldn't draw the thing by hand with my arms.

    New Jersey Approves Crossbows For Archery Deer 2009

  • It has about a 150# pull so I had to fabricate a contraption to pull the string with pullies, the notion that handicapped people who can't pull a bow should use an xbow is kinda unrealistic.

    On Crossbows During the Regular Bow Season 2010

  • The fight sequences were very well done and I really really like the fight scene on the pullies in the church.

    Thanksgiving HayleyM 2008

  • The fight sequences were very well done and I really really like the fight scene on the pullies in the church.

    Archive 2008-11-01 HayleyM 2008

  • One cute clip shows one gentleman's smarts in trying to get off the ground: He dropped a weight from a height and through pullies started off his craft at one g!

    Lighting our Space Habitats Stephen D. Covey 2009

  • The string ran through several pullies, and ulitmately pulled a pin out of the top of the PVC pipe.

    FRIDAY FREE FOR ALL: FINE BENNY LAVA 2007

  • Now all those strategic geniuses in the Democratic Party and liberal insider organizations who lectured us about political viability desperately cling to the dregs of Rube Goldberg bills, pullies and all.

    Nato Green: Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 2 in a Series, Democrats 2009

  • At this Sharrkan was glad and, hastening back to his horse, mounted and walked him abreast of her, and she kept faring on till they came to a drawbridge180 built of beams of the white poplar, hung by pullies and steel chains and made fast with hooks and padlocks.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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