Etymograph

English

rimpull

From rim (“of a wheel”) + pull (noun).

A compound of rim ‘of a wheel’ + pull

Proto-Germanic *rimô

Proto-West Germanic *rimō

Old English rima ‘rim, edge, border, bank, coast’

Middle English rim

English rim

Old English pullian ‘to pull, pluck’

Middle English pullen ‘to pull’

English pull

Today it means

noun The amount of tractive force located where the driving wheels contact the surface on which they travel.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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