The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pullen \Pul"len\, n. [Cf. L. pullinus belonging to young animals. See Pullet.] Poultry. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) poultry
Wikipedia
Pullen is an uncommon English surname with a purported Norman origin. "Pullen" is likely an occupational name, arising from the Old French poulain. There are several variants of "Pullen", including Pullin, Pullins, Pulleyn, Pullan and Pullein, the latter being the earliest recorded version (1166).
Apart from the English surname "Pullen", there is a very common surname "Pullan" in India.
The "Pullen" surname is shared by these notable people:
- Andrew John Pullan (1963–2012), New Zealand mathematician
- Cecil Pullan (1910-1970), Indian-born English cricket player
- Cyril Pullin (1893-1973), English inventor, engineer and motorcycle race driver
- Deborah Pullen (1963-2010), New Zealand female international football (soccer) player
- Don Pullen (1941-1995), American jazz musician
- Erica Pullins (b. 1983), American musician
- Frank Pullen (1915-1992), English businessperson and racehorse owner
- Hartley Pullan (1899–1968), World War I flying ace
- Henry Pulleine (bef. 1850-1879), British Army administrator during the Anglo-Zulu War with an acting rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
- Jacob Pullen (b. 1989), American basketball player
- James Henry Pullen (1835-1916), aka "Genius of Earlswood Asylum", British autistic savant
- John Pullin (b. 1941), English rugby union player (retired)
- Jorge Pullin (b. 1963), Argentine-American physics academic
- Josiah Pullen (1631–1714), English vicar
- Kent Pullen (1942-2003), American politician
- Lloyd T. Pullen (1825-1908), American politician
- Matilda Marian Pullan (1819–1862), British author
- Melanie Pullen (b. 1975), American photographer
- Melanie Clark Pullen (b. 1977), Irish actress, producer and writer
- Penny Pullen, American politician
- Peter Pullan (1857-1901), English cricket player
- Richard Popplewell Pullan (1825-1888), English architect and archæologist
- Robert Pullen (died c.1150), English theologian and official of the Roman Catholic Church
- Sidney Pullen (1895-1950s), English football (soccer) player
- Tessa Pullan (b. 1954), sculptor, equestrian artist
- Tobias Pullen (1648–1713), Irish bishop
- William Pullen (1813–1887), Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer
Pullen or Pullens may refer to:
- Pullens buildings, Victorian era tenement buildings in London, UK
- Pullen Corner School, RI, USA
- Pullen Island (Antarctica)
- Pullen Island (South Australia)
- Pullens Lane, Oxford, UK
- Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Baptist congregation in Raleigh, NC, USA
- Pullen Park, public park in Raleigh, NC, USA
- Pullen Park Carousel, carousel in Raleigh, NC, USA
- Pullens, Virginia, USA
Usage examples of "pullen".
And suddenly anon this Damian Gan pullen up the smock, and in he throng.
As curious as ever, Suttle wanted to know about Pullen, and about Bazza Mackenzie.
He gave Pullen a little punch on the shoulder, picked up the pillowslip, and followed Suttle down towards the street.
Between them, Winter and Suttle cut through the cable ties, threw Pullen a T-shirt and a pair of filthy jeans, and pushed him towards the bathroom to clean himself up.
As soon as two other members of the squad had driven down from Kingston Crescent to babysit the flat in case the Scousers turned up, Winter and Suttle would escort Pullen to Central police station where, Winter explained, the Custody Sergeant had volunteered an empty cell.
Shortly afterwards, as he and Suttle stepped out into the gloom of the upstairs landing with Pullen, Winter heard a yell from one of the DCs.
He told Suttle to fetch the handcuffs from the glove box then bundled Pullen into the back of the car and locked the doors.
Mackenzie, it turned out, had got word that the state of Trudy Gallagher was down to Pullen and not the Scousers at all.
As soon as two other members of the squad had driven down from Kingston Crescent to babysit the flat in case the Scousers turned up, Winter and Suttle would escort Pullen to Central police station where, Winter explained, the Custody Sergeant had volunteered an empty cell.