underpull
Collocations
4ADJ.
early, equipped
VERB + UNDERPULL
contented, failing
UNDERPULL + NOUN
jack, lever, vent
PREP.
down, in, with
Definitions
noun
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 .
Our underpull pumping power is designed to pump wells in any direction.
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!"
A white face, blurred and indistinct, seemed to rise up from beneath the rushing bubbles till, just as it was about to jump to the surface, as things do that come up, down it was drawn again by that terrible underpull which has been fatal to so many good swimmers.
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.
Stimulating forces tingled more intensely from the lower underpull of gravity.
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).
On the other hand, in the mid-tempo swingers and even in the up-tempo anthems, the exhilaration in his voice—"Oh, look at me now!"—has an ironic underpull, the insinuation of his Jersey accent in the midst of that wondrously uptown pronunciation, reflecting both the memory of how tough it was and the fear that at the next roll of the dice you're gonna be back in the gutter: unreasonable perhaps, given his fame and his fortune and his talent, but go tell that to an Italian.
A secret or indirect influence.
And yet we can not escape from the feeling that very much of what we are has been determined for us by some mysterious underpull, the nature of which we do not always understand and the purposes of which we are dull to interpret.
This dilemma of the "friendly threesome," and the underpull of tensions that sustain the relationship, is rarely acknowledged, while almost universal recognition is given to its more pronounced version, the eternal triangle.
verb
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[…]
It may have been that the lower ranks of the apprenticii, in the words of The Compleat Solicitor, underpulled causes during the long term of study then necessary before the rank of utter barrister was attained.
To pull (any sense) insufficiently.
The common failing is to underpull in these early hours because of fear of overpull .
The tendency is usually to underpull, rather than to exceed the standard tension.
adj
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.
[…] underpull lever with china handle, elevated, high pressure compound cover ball cock, standard pattern flush valve with 14 " overflow tube, tinned copper float, […]
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6Am 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 .
WiktionaryOur underpull pumping power is designed to pump wells in any direction.
WiktionaryFig. 5 —Two-well hook-up in which the Universal Pumping Unit is pumping one of the wells while the second well, equipped with an underpull jack, is being pumped through a pull-rod attached to the Univ
WiktionaryHis 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[…]
WiktionaryIt may have been that the lower ranks of the apprenticii, in the words of The Compleat Solicitor, underpulled causes during the long term of study then necessary before the rank of utter barrister was
WiktionaryThe common failing is to underpull in these early hours because of fear of overpull .
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