Pull
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Pull
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1 v. t.
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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2 v. t.
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
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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.
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4 v. t.
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 v. t.
To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
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6 v. t.
To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
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7 v. t.
To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
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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.
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9 n.
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
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10 n.
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
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11 n.
A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
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12 n.
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
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13 n.
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
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14 n.
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
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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.
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16 n.
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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17 v. t.
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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18 v. t.
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
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19 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.
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20 v. t.
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
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21 v. t.
To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
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22 v. t.
To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
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23 v. t.
To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
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24 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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25 n.
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
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26 n.
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
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27 n.
A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
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28 n.
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
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29 n.
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
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30 n.
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
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31 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.
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32 n.
A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.