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boat-puller en · NOUN
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The members of a boat's crew who are oarsmen or paddlers and prey-clubbers, as contrasted with those who are harpooners, gaffers, or anglers.
I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives. I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
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