pull along

1. 1.

   pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance

   “Can you shlep this bag of potatoes upstairs?”

   “She pulled along a large trunk”

   Synonymsshlepschlep

   Broaderdrag

   Narrowertow

Questions about pull along

What does pull along mean?

pull along means "pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance".

What is another word for pull along?

Close synonyms include shlep, schlep. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pull along a common word?

pull along is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.