Pull

·noun A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

II. Pull ·noun The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.

III. Pull ·noun A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

IV. Pull ·vt To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

V. Pull ·vt To strike the ball in a particular manner. ·see Pull, ·noun, 8.

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

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

VIII. Pull ·vt To draw apart; to Tear; to Rend.

IX. Pull ·noun A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

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

XI. Pull ·vt To take or make, as a proof or impression;

— hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.

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

XIII. Pull ·vt To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an Oar.

XIV. Pull ·vi To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to Tug; as, to pull at a rope.

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

XVI. Pull ·vt To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to Pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.