From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pull \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.
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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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pull \Pull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pulled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pulling.] [AS. pullian; cf. LG. pulen, and Gael. peall,
piol, spiol.]
1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. --Shak.
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He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in.
--Gen. viii.
9.
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2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
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He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in
pieces; he hath made me desolate. --Lam. iii.
11.
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3. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to
pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
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4. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one;
as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
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5. (Horse Racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning;
as, the favorite was pulled.
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6. (Print.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; --
hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
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7. (Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See
Pull, n., 8.
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Never pull a straight fast ball to leg. --R. H.
Lyttelton.
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To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are
equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable
to do. " --South.
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."
--Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the
proud." --Roscommon.
To pull a finch. See under Finch.
To pull off, take or draw off.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pull \Pull\, n.
1. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to
move something by drawing toward one.
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I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which
was fastened at the top of my box. --Swift.
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2. A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. --Carew.
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3. A pluck; loss or violence suffered. [Poetic]
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Two pulls at once;
His lady banished, and a limb lopped off. --Shak.
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4. A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is
pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
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5. The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. [Colloq.]
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6. The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or
the mug. [Slang] --Dickens.
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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]
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8. (Cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to
the off side, or an off ball to the side.
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The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad
cricket. --R. A.
Proctor.
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