Word: underpull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + pull. 1. A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel. Example: Am therefore suggesting, that when you have a prospective customer, not to be so exacting, not to require a concrete foundation, neither the underpull and a vent spout leading to the roof . Example: Our underpull pumping power is designed to pump wells in any direction. 2. Synonym of undertow. Example: "He's got hold of him!" rang out, as the struggling swimmer seemed to snatch at the shoulder of the drowning man. Then an appalled murmur arose. " It's an underpull!" Example: A white face, blurred and indistinct, seemed to rise up from beneath the rushing bubbles till, just as it was about to jump to the surface, as things do that come up, down it was drawn again by that terrible underpull which has been fatal to so many good swimmers. 3. A downward pull or force. Labels: broadly Example: […] steps stretching the height of the tower carry upward the longings of men who wished to escape the underpull of time and gravity. Example: Stimulating forces tingled more intensely from the lower underpull of gravity. 4. A negative influence. Example: Some of the children are from the best stock of India, but some have everything against them (and the underpull of heredity can tell hardly on a child). Example: On the other hand, in the mid-tempo swingers and even in the up-tempo anthems, the exhilaration in his voice—"Oh, look at me now!"—has an ironic underpull, the insinuation of his Jersey accent in the midst of that wondrously uptown pronunciation, reflecting both the memory of how tough it was and the fear that at the next roll of the dice you're gonna be back in the gutter: unreasonable perhaps, given his fame and his fortune and his talent, but go tell that to an Italian. 5. A secret or indirect influence. Example: And yet we can not escape from the feeling that very much of what we are has been determined for us by some mysterious underpull, the nature of which we do not always understand and the purposes of which we are dull to interpret. Example: This dilemma of the "friendly threesome," and the underpull of tensions that sustain the relationship, is rarely acknowledged, while almost universal recognition is given to its more pronounced version, the eternal triangle. 6. A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below. Example: Higher the climb followed the line of least resistance up a succession of slabs, flakes, and cracks, where the ordinary hold was an underpull for the hands and friction for the feet. Example: Using the icicle as an underpull, I chipped a good jug over the top and made two footholds on the steep slab. 7. The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently. Example: Algebraically, there may be little difference between underpull where the correct response fails to be attractive to the minority group members for cultural reasons, as discussed above, and overpull that acts for the majority group, attracting them to the correct response for cultural reasons perhaps combined with knowledge. Example: El Paso points out that it does not have an operational balancing agreement with the other pipeline, but rather has a predetermined allocation agreement under which any overpull or underpull by a shipper utilizing the Franklin point is allocated prorata to all parties moving gas through that point . 8. The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently. Example: Half an inch (1.25 cm) of shortening due to underpull is far less serious than half an inch of lengthening with slow union due to overpull. Example: Increased length and inhibited stabilizing muscles result in underpull at a motion segment dependent on the normality of its antagonist muscle as well.