Word Meanings - DERACINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.

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• PULLICATE
  A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.
• ROOTSTOCK
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
• PULLULATION
  A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More.
• PULLEY
  A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one
• PULLMAN CAR
  A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.
• PULLEN
  Poultry.
• PULL
  To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. (more info) 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii.
• ERADICATION
  1. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction. 2. The state of being plucked up by the roots.
• PULLER
  One who, or that which, pulls. Proud setter up and puller down of kings. Shak.
• PULLED
  Plucked; pilled; moulting. " A pulled hen." Chaucer.
• PULLAIL
  Poultry. Rom. of R.
• PULLET
  A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. Shak. (more info) a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal, and cf.
• PULLDEVIL
  A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.
• PULLBACK
  The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point. (more info) 1. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
• PULLULATE
  To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.
• PULLUS
  A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
• CONE PULLEY
  A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
• REPULLULATE
  To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell.
• WIRE-PULLER
  One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell.
• PEGROOTS
  See SETTERWORT
• WIRE-PULLING
  The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
• AMPULLATE; AMPULLATED
  Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
• AMPULLIFORM
  Flask-shaped; dilated.
• UNDERPULLER
  One who underpulls.
• SPULLER
  One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.