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Definition of Pull
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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. Related Definitions:
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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 You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. Zac Hanson As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it. Montel Williams First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. George Burns A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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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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