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.
Swift. 2. A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. Carew.
3.
A pluck; loss or violence suffered. [Poetic]
Two
pulls at once;
His lady banished, and a limb
lopped off.
Shak.
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] Dickens.
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.
R. A. Proctor.
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.
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.
Ne'er pull your hat upon your
brows.
Shak. He
put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in.
Gen. viii. 9. 2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
He hath turned aside my ways, and
pulled me in pieces; he hath made me
desolate.
Lam. iii. 11. 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.
R. H. Lyttelton. 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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