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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Pullicate :: Pullicate (n.) A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.
Divellicate :: Divellicate (v. t.) To pull in pieces.
Trochlea :: Trochlea (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes..
Haul :: Haul (n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
Demolition :: Demolition (n.) The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails..
Tab :: Tab (n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something.
Bushwhacking :: Bushwhacking (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream..
Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) The groove of a pulley.
Pullet :: Pullet (n.) A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl..
Sowle :: Sowle (v. t.) To pull by the ears; to drag about.
Tug :: Tug (v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever..
Lower :: Lower (a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag..
Ampulla :: Ampulla (n.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear..
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
Polyspast :: Polyspast (n.) A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations..
Double :: Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred..
Repullulate :: Repullulate (v. i.) To bud again.
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