Definition of pull

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Pull (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..

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Divulsive :: Divulsive (a.) Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting..
Pull :: Pull (v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever..
Croupade :: Croupade (n.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.
Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..
Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..
Tetraspaston :: Tetraspaston (n.) A machine in which four pulleys act together.
Infratrochlear :: Infratrochlear (a.) Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve..
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom..
Tug :: Tug (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort..
Pullus :: Pullus (n.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..
Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The act of pulling, or attracting..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to
Ampulla :: Ampulla (n.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.
Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Haul :: Haul (n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
Hale :: Hale (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.
Pentaspast :: Pentaspast (n.) A purchase with five pulleys.
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