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verb

Pull v. t. (past & past part. pulled; pres. part. pulling)

1.

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. "Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows." "He put forth his hand... and pulled her in."

2.

To draw apart; to tear; to rend. "He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate."

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

(Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. "Never pull a straight fast ball to leg."

To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. "

To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud."

To pull a finch. See under Finch.

To pull off, take or draw off.

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Etymology of 'Pull down'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pull down" Quotes from Famous Books

... journey together—the long, long journey—that I hope everything. No pains shall be spared. No luxury shall she lack even on the hardest stretches of the way. She shall know that she owes all to my thought and care. In three weeks I can pull down that high wall between us. She will have learned to depend on me, to need me, to long for me when I am out of her sight, as the gazelle longs for ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... priestly soothsayers. Nay, the too comforting assurance made its way to the defenders at the gates, and hundreds of them deserted their posts; leaving the enemy to creep in from the moat, and, with hooks on long poles, actually pull down some of the ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... easy chair and raise your eyes and you have seen all there is to see. There's a delightful simplicity about that to me. But I suppose Yoritomo would call this room crowded, nevertheless. How about it, old man? It wouldn't take you fifteen minutes to pull down the curtains and roll up the rug and store them in the 'go-down.' Would it, now, ...

— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes

... people? We do not think so; and, to be frank, was what had just happened likely to give her a favorable idea of the country she was leaving? Could she have much love for the people who were fastening a rope to pull down the statue of the hero of Austerlitz from its pedestal, the Vendme column? When her father, the Emperor Francis I., had been defeated, driven from his capital, overwhelmed with the blows of fate, his misfortunes had only augmented his popularity; the more he suffered, the more ...

— The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise • Imbert De Saint-Amand

... taught him that precedent is only another name for embodied experience, and that it counts for even more in the guidance of communities of men than in that of the individual life. He was not a man who held it good public economy to pull down on the mere chance of rebuilding better. Mr. Lincoln's faith in God was qualified by a very well-founded distrust of the wisdom of man. Perhaps it was his want of self-confidence that more than anything else won him the unlimited ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

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