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(1):

(v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.

(2):

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

(3):

(v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

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

(7):

(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

(8):

(v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

(9):

(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

(10):

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

(11):

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

(12):

(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

(13):

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

(14):

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

(15):

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

(16):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pull'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pull.html. 1828.
 
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