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pull line

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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Interviewer: Now I seem to remember hearing that ah, for hydro, you used your horses to- Speaker: Yes, I pull line to the hydro. And ah, ah quite a long piece too. With a team of horses and you pull the wire. At that time, the hydro poles went from farm to farm to farm. Interviewer: So when would this be? This would be in the fifties or the sixties? Speaker 2: Probably seventies.
To pull hydroelectric cable for the setup of hydro poles.