(v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
(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.
(v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one;
as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
(v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the
favorite was pulled.
(v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses
being worked by pulling a lever.
(v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n.,
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.
(n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move
something by drawing toward one.
(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
(n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled;
as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
(n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
(n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the
mug.
(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.
(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side,
or an off ball to the side.
