pull-through

An exercise in which weight is pulled via a cable passed between the legs.

Noun

  1. An exercise in which weight is pulled via a cable passed between the legs.
  2. A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.
  3. The trick of apparently cutting the cards while leaving the deck in the same sequence as before.
    • THE PULL-THROUGH is used for a crooked shuffle to keep the cards stacked. - 1942, Yank, volume 1, numbers 1-45, page 8:
    • The most popular and most deceptive of the false shuffles is the Pull Through [sic], a dazzling and completely crooked shuffle which doesn't alter the position of a single card. - 1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to...

Origin

Deverbal from pull through.

Forms

pull-throughs