candy pull

a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.

QUIZZES

Here is our second set of teacher-selected PSAT vocabulary words. Do you know the meanings of these terms?

Question 1 of 10

advocate

First recorded in 1835–45

Then came the "candy-pull," and very sweetly closed the day's festivities.
American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 1, January, 1890|Various
Kitty was telling something that had happened that afternoon at the candy-pull from which they were just returning.
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation|Annie Fellows Johnston
You can't go on adding to the party, though, as if it was a candy-pull!
The Story Of Waitstill Baxter|By Kate Douglas Wiggin
Leslie wanted to have a candy-pull, with apples and nuts and raisins for refreshments.
Cloudy Jewel|Grace Livingston Hill

Instead we are going to have a candy-pull over at my house, and I came over to get you.
Harry Watson's High School Days|Frank V. Webster