pull

1. v. t. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Source: opted

2. v. t. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. v. t. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. Source: opted

5. v. t. To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. Source: opted

6. v. t. To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. Source: opted

7. v. t. To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. Source: opted

8. v. i. To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope. Source: opted

9. n. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. Source: opted

10. n. A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. Source: opted

11. n. A pluck; loss or violence suffered. Source: opted

12. n. A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. Source: opted

13. n. The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. Source: opted

14. n. The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. Source: opted

15. 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. Source: opted

16. n. A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. Source: opted

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