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PULL, L. vello.

1. To draw to draw towards one or to make an effort to draw. Pull differs from draw we use draw when motion follows the effort, and pull is used in the same sense but we may also pull forever without drawing or moving the thing. This distinction may not be universal. Pull is opposed to push.

Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in to him into the ark. Genesis 8

2. To pluck to gather by drawing or forcing off or out as, to pull fruit to pull flax.

3. To tear to rend but in this sense followed by some qualifying word or phrase as, to pull in pieces to pull asunder or apart. To pull in two, is to separate or tear by violence into two parts.

To pull down, to demolish or to take in pieces by separating the parts as, to pull down a house.

1. To demolish to subvert to destroy.

In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than to build up.

2. To bring down to degrade to humble.

To raise the wretched and pull down the proud.

pull off, to separate by pulling to pluck also, to take off without force as, to pull off a coat or hat.

To pull out, to draw out to extract.

To pull up, to pluck up to tear up by the roots hence, to extirpate to eradicate to destroy.

PULL, n. The act of pulling or drawing with force an effort to move by drawing towards one.

1. A contest a struggle.

2. Pluck violence suffered.