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What's the meaning of "pull down" here?

But I only found out later that she’d read that letter with snow falling all around her. That she’d set it on the seat next to her while she mushed her old right-hand-drive Jeep up and down the switchbacks on her route, carving clean tracks through the white erasure that had fallen all throughout the night before. And that as she pulled down the long gravel path leading to their little house, on the winter-dormant apple orchard Daniel had talked about so often, she kept sneaking glances at the return address.
What's the meaning of "pull down" in "she pulled down the long gravel path leading to their little house"? Does it mean the gravel path is lower than the road she had driven on?
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Gordon
Feb 07, 2013
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Though this is not a common way to use those words in English, the phrase "pulled down" here is referring to the woman driving her car down the road. We know this for two main reasons:

1) Most important: the context of the paragraph leads us to believe the woman is driving. The writer mentions the woman's Jeep (a type of American car), and writes about her driving before "pulled down." We can infer that the action she is performing is driving.

2) There are other variations of "pull" that refer to driving. For example, the phrase "pull out" is often used when talking about driving. We "pull out" of driveways, parking lots, etc.

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