Definition of Pull

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Definition of Pull

Pull

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.

To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.

To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.

To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.

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

The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.

A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.

Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.

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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Pull Quotations

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
Steven Wright

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine

Pull Translations

pull in Afrikaans is trek
pull in Dutch is rukken
pull in French is tirage
pull in German is Zugriff, ziehen, zerren, ziehen
pull in Italian is estrassi
pull in Spanish is tirar, extraer
pull in Swedish is ryckning, draga, rycka, ryck, slita

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