Wordsworth uses this term several times – apparently an obsolete term for picking or gathering apples.
‘We pulled apples after dinner, a large basket full.’Â Sunday 12 October 1800
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Source: Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, ed. and introduction by Pamela Woof (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008 (2002)), p. 26
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