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Pull   /pʊl/   Listen
verb
Pull  v. t.  (past & past part. pulled; pres. part. pulling)  
1.
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. "Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows." "He put forth his hand... and pulled her in."
2.
To draw apart; to tear; to rend. "He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate."
3.
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
4.
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
5.
(Horse Racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
6.
(Print.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
7.
(Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. "Never pull a straight fast ball to leg."
To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. "
To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud."
To pull a finch. See under Finch.
To pull off, take or draw off.


Pull  v. i.  To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
To pull apart, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart.
To pull up, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt.
To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like.


noun
Pull  n.  
1.
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. "I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box."
2.
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
3.
A pluck; loss or violence suffered. (Poetic) "Two pulls at once; His lady banished, and a limb lopped off."
4.
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
5.
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. (Colloq.)
6.
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. (Slang)
7.
Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull. (Slang)
8.
(Cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. "The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket."





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"Pull" Quotes from Famous Books



... baskets, clothing, everything owned by the deceased, and often donating much extra; all gathered around the grave wailing most pitifully, tearing their faces with their nails till the blood would run down their cheeks, pull out their hair, and such other heathenish conduct. These burials were generally made under their thatch houses or very near thereto. The house where one died was always torn down, removed, rebuilt, or ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow
... suggested: so he said nothing. The Leopard was a faster tug than the one which had come off from Fort Gaines, and she came up with the boat which contained Lieutenant Dallberg and his two men, the latter of whom were nearly exhausted with the long pull they had taken; for, as they were not sailors, they did not row ...
— Taken by the Enemy • Oliver Optic
... can haue the fortitude, To lop a limbe off, or pull out an eye, Or being in a heauenly seruitude, To free your selues would with the damned lye? Of force with me you now must all conclude, That mortall men are subiect to loues rod, But heere you shall perceiue that onely I, Am natures ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale
... occasion when he was sitting on the upper verandah of the Club Hotel in Suva with two of his servants squatting near by, the whisky he had drunk had made him feel so sleepy, that he nearly fell into the street below, but his servants dared not lay hands on him to pull him back into safety, as his body was considered sacred by his people, and they dared not touch him. He declared to me that he would have been killed if a white man had not arrived just in time. He was very fond of telling me this story, and always laughed heartily over it. I noticed ...
— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker
... told me he was planning to do the fall ploughing with Cupid and Puck. He says they have plenty of pull left in them and my private opinion is that Cousin Ann's old coach will not stand ...
— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson


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