pull /pŭl/

1. To pluck
2. To remove by plucking
3. To extract
4. To pick by hand
5. To strip, deprive of feathers, hair, etc
6. To draw or drag
7. To move, or try or tend to move, towards oneself or in the direction so thought of
8. To make, or cause to be, by pulling
9. To row
10. To transport by rowing
11. To move in a particular direction when driving (usu with out, over, etc)
12. To stretch
13. To hold back (eg a blow in boxing, or a racehorse to prevent its winning; see also pull up below)
14. To take as an impression or proof, orig by pulling the bar of a hand-press (printing)
15. To hit (the ball) too much to the left for a right-handed player, or to the right for a left-handed player (golf)
16. To hit (the ball) with a horizontal bat from waist height round onto the legside (cricket)
17. To bring down
18. To take a drink of
19. To draw or fire (a weapon)
20. To snatch or steal (slang)
21. To arrest (slang)
22. To raid (slang)
23. To succeed in forming a (sexual) relationship with (slang)
24. To attract (eg a crowd) (slang)
25. To withdraw

1. To give a pull
2. To perform the action of pulling anything
3. To tear or pluck
4. To drag or draw
5. To strain at the bit
6. To exert oneself
7. To go with a pulling movement
8. To move in a particular direction, esp when in a motor vehicle (usu with away, out, over, etc)
9. To row
10. To suck
11. To succeed in initiating a sexual relationship (slang)

1. An act, bout or spell of pulling
2. A pulling force
3. A row
4. A stiff ascent
5. A draught of liquor
6. A proof, a single impression (printing)
7. Advantage
8. Influence
9. An apparatus for pulling
10. The quantity pulled at one time
11. Resistance
12. A shot hit too far to the left for a right-handed player, or to the right for a left-handed player (golf)
13. An attacking stroke played with a horizontal bat where the batsman hits the ball from waist height round onto the legside (cricket)

pullˈer noun

pullˈback noun

1. A hindrance
2. A drawback
3. A retreat or withdrawal
4. A device formerly used for making a skirt hang close and straight in front (see also pull back below)

pullˈ-down adjective

1. Able or intended to be pulled down in some way or by some means
2. (of a computer menu) able to be accessed by means of the cursor or a key, and displayed over the material already on screen

pullˈ-in noun

1. A stopping-place (also adjective)
2. A transport café (see also pull in below)

pullˈ-on adjective

(of eg clothes) requiring only to be pulled on, without fastening

noun

A pull-on garment of any kind

pullˈ-out adjective

Denoting a section of a magazine, etc that can be removed and kept separately (see also pull out below)

pullˈover noun

A jersey, jumper, or other body garment put on over the head

pullˈ-tab noun

1. A ring pull, a tongue of metal with a ring attached to it, which pulls to open a beer, etc can
2. In eg illustrations, esp in children's books, a piece of paper or card attached to a part of an illustration, which can be pulled to make (that part of) the illustration move or alter in some way

pull technology noun (computing)

The acquiring of information from a server on the Internet by request (cf push technology under push¹)

pullˈ-through noun

A cord with a rag for cleaning a rifle barrel

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