"underpull" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From under- + pull.",
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      "form": "underpulls",
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    {
      "form": "underpulling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "underpulled",
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      "form": "underpulled",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1896, Edmund Brown Viney Christian, A Short History of Solicitors",
          "text": "It may have been that the lower ranks of the apprenticii, in the words of The Compleat Solicitor, underpulled causes during the long term of study then necessary before the rank of utter barrister was attained.",
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          "ref": "a. 1734, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North",
          "text": "His Lordship, while he was a Student, and during his Incapacity to practise aboveboard, was contented to underpull, as they call it, and managed diverse Suits for his Country Friends and Relations[…]",
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        "To exert one's influence secretly."
      ],
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          "exert",
          "exert"
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        [
          "influence",
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          "secret",
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        "(transitive) To exert one's influence secretly."
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  "word": "underpull"
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  "etymology_text": "From under- + pull.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underpulls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpulling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpulled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underpulled",
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        "past"
      ]
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        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1734, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North",
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      ],
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        "To exert one's influence secretly."
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        "(transitive) To exert one's influence secretly."
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