‖ ˈpullace, -ase Obs. rare—1.
[app. an erron. variant of pulley (perh. founded on the pl. pulleis, influenced by windas, windlass).]
A pulley.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 107/2 Pullases, turning things on the top of the [weaving] Frame, by which with the help of the tradles the Spring-staves are raised up and down. Ibid. xviii. (Roxb.) 130/2 Drawing it [a battering ram] higher or letting it lower, by means of chaines and pullaces as it hung in it[s] carriage. |