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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. |
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To draw apart; to tear; to rend. |
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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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To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one;
as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. |
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To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the
favorite was pulled. |
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To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses
being worked by pulling a lever. |
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To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n.,
8. |
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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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The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move
something by drawing toward one. |
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A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. |
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A pluck; loss or violence suffered. |
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A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled;
as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. |
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The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. |
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The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the
mug. |
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Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an
advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the
pull. |
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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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