| Pull |
v. t. |
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. |
| Pull |
v. t. |
To draw apart; to tear; to rend. |
| Pull |
v. t. |
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. |
| Pull |
v. t. |
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. |
| Pull |
v. t. |
To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. |
| Pull |
v. t. |
To take or make, as a proof or impression;
hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. |
| Pull |
v. t. |
To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. |
| 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. |
| Pull |
n. |
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. |
| Pull |
n. |
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. |
| Pull |
n. |
A pluck; loss or violence suffered. |
| Pull |
n. |
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. |
| Pull |
n. |
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. |
| Pull |
n. |
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. |
| Pull |
n. |
Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull. |
| Pull |
n. |
A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. |
