puller : Idioms & Phrases


Flax puller

  • a machine for pulling flax plants in the field.
Webster 1913

wire-puller

  • noun one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends
WordNet
Wire"-pull`er noun
Definitions
  1. 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.
Webster 1913