pull, pulle

t. & i. [Prob. an English word, though the A. S. pulli an, given in Somner's Dict., is not found; the pa. par. apullad occurs in A. S. Leachdoms, i. 362; cf. Low Ger. pulen =to pick, to pinch, to pull, to tear; Lat. pello (pa. t. pepuli )=to drive.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To draw, or endeavor to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly, to drag, to haul. ( Genesis viii. 9.) 2. To pluck; to gather with the hand. "Flax, pulled in the bloom, will be whiter and stronger than if let stand till the seed is ripe." -Mortimer: Hus bandry . 3. To move or set in motion by drawing or pulling; as, to pull a bell. 4. To tear, to rend (followed by a qualifying word or phrase). ( Acts xxiii. 10.) 5. To carry in a boat by means of oars. pull a in 12. To pull the long bow : To exaggerate; to lie boastingly. 13. To pull (or draw ) the strings (or wires): Το be the real though secret promoter or mover; to set in action secretly. "Some men with cooler heads who pulled the strings that influenced the mob."- Our Own Country, ii. 257. 14. To pull through : To manage to get through with any undertaking; to succeed with difficulty. 15. To pull together : To cooperate. 16. To pull up : IMG:content-1721.jpg:[graphic] (1) Transitive : (a) To drag up forcibly; to pluck up; hence, to eradicate, to extirpate. (b) To stop by means of reins, .; as, to pull up a horse. IMG:content-1722.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act of pulling, drawing, or dragging; an effort to move by drawing toward one; a haul, a tug. "Waiting a happy Spring to ripen full His long'd-for harvest, to the reapers pull." Beaum. & Flet.: Four Plays in One. (Epil.) 2. A contest, a struggle. "For many a man that may not stand a pull , Yet liketh it him at the wrest lying for to be." Chaucer. A embly of Fowles . 3. That which is pulled; as (1) The knob and stem of a door-bell or doorgong; a bell-pull. (2) A catch or lip upon a drawer or door by which IMG:content-1723.png:[blocks in formation] (3) The lever of a beer-pump or counter pump. 4. The act of rowing a boat; an excursion in a rowing boat. "The crew prepared for a pull over the full course."London Daily Telegraph . IMG:content-1724.png:[blocks in formation] (2) To demolish, to destroy, to subvert. "In political affairs than to build up."- Howel: Vocal Forest. depre ed; the pull-down pa es through a per for a- tion in a bra plate on the bottom of the wind- trackers, ., with the key. (3) To bring down; to degrade, to humble. "It was onely a pulling down and tying short of too chest, and connected by stickers, roller-boards, much greatne ."- North: Plutarch, p. 276. (4) To weaken; to deprive of strength. "A fit of common sickne pulls thee down ." IMG:content-1725.png:[blocks in formation] 9. To pull one through : To help one through or extricate one from a difficulty. "His unexpected ability pulled him through."-Chicago Tribune, July 30, 1894. 10. To pull one's self together: To rally; to exert one's self more; to rouse one's self. 11. To pull out : To draw or drag out; to extirpate, to eradicate.