pulled

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adjective
  1. of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.

Origin of pulled

1
First recorded in 1730–40; pull + -ed2

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How to use pulled in a sentence

  • I was rather awed by his imposing appearance, and advanced timidly to the doors, which were of glass, and pulled the bell.

  • The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.

  • The old dowager's voice toned down, and she pulled her black feathers straight upon her head.

    Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Wood
  • It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • The trains were pulled up the incline at the Lickey by powerful stationary engines.

    Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell