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Bible Dictionaries
Pull
Webster's Dictionary
or (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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pull'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pull.html. 1828.
