puller-off

Updated: May 23, 2025

The puller-off swung the small truck on to the turn-table, another man ran with it along the bank down the curving lines. "And William is dead, and my mother's in London, and what will she be doing?" the boy asked himself, as if it were a conundrum. He watched chair after chair come up, and still no father.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Sons and Lovers