pul
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Etymology
Origin of pul
First recorded in 1925–30; from Persian pūl, from Turkish pul
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They told their mother Kantaben they were going to "julto pul", or hanging bridge - a historic colonial era suspension footbridge, which had reopened just a few days earlier, after months of repairs.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2022
“Then I take it out, I pul foil over it and let it sit for at least an hour. It’s the resting time that really works.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2014
In fact, a guy who raises pigs told me lo pul a radio near the animal with some soft music.
From Time Magazine Archive
He presed to pul the frute with his honde, As man for fode was nyhonde feynte; She seid, Thomas, lat them stande, Or ellis the fiend will the ateynte.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
Thus, in the Mazatec language, of Mexico, we find indidi "boy," tzadi "girl," indi "son," and in the Cholona, of Peru, nun-pullup "boy," ila-pullup "girl," pul "son,"—where ila means "female," and nun "male."
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.
A German shepherd called Rumor who just missed winning at the Westminster Kennel Club last year came back to score a big victory Monday night, beating out favored Preston the puli in the herding group.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2017
The Labrador retriever is one of the most basic dog breeds—it has nothing resembling the Rastafarian coat of the puli, or the complicated ear structure of the puffin-hunting Norwegian lundehund.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2012
Favre, showed a puli and a Kerry blue.
From Time Magazine Archive
And on one side of the driveway, beside the old well, in the shade of the kodam puli tree, a silent blue-aproned army gathered in the greenheat to watch.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
We are puli men, They are tiru men: If one śâ man, Surrounds tiru men.
From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Kingscote, Mrs. Howard
Thus Alcman uses πόλτος for puls; are we to suppose that this word was so early brought over from Italy?
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Exactly the same sound was intended to be reproduced in the "bilbit amphora" of Nævius, the "glut glut murmurat unda sonans" of the Latin Anthology, and the "puls" of Varro.
The name Pulsatilla is a diminutive of the Latin puls, a pottage, as made from pulse, and used at sacrificial feasts.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
Pulse, puls, n. grain or seed of beans, pease, &c.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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