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Pull [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move by drawing towards one.

2. A contest; a struggle.

3. Pluck; violence suffered.

Pull [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To draw; to draw towards one or to make an effort to draw. pull differs from draw; we use draw when motion follows the effort, and pull is used in the same sense; but we may also pull forever without drawing or moving the thing. This distinction may not be universal. pull is opposed to push.

2. Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in to him into the ark. Genesis 8:9 .

3. To pluck; to gather by drawing or forcing off or out; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax.

4. To tear; to rend; but in this sense followed by some qualifying word or phrase; as, to pull in pieces; to pull asunder or apart. To pull in two, is to separate or tear by violence into two parts.

5. To pull down, to demolish or to take in pieces by separating the parts; as, to pull down a house.

6. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy.

7. In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than to build up.

8. To bring down; to degrade; to humble.

9. To raise the wretched and pull down the proud.

10. PULL off, to separate by pulling; to pluck; also, to take off without force; as, to pull off a coat or hat.

11. To pull out, to draw out; to extract.

12. To pull up, to pluck up; to tear up by the roots; hence, to extirpate; to eradicate; to destroy.

Pull [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.

2. A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

3. A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

4. A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

5. The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.

6. The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.

7. Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.

8. A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

Pull [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.

Pull [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

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

6. To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.

7. To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.

Pullail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Poultry.

Pullback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That which keeps back, or restrains from proceeding.

Pullback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.

2. The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

Pulled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Drawn towards one; plucked.

Pulled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Plucked; pilled; moulting.

Pulled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pullen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Poultry.

2. [Not used.]

Pullen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Poultry.

Puller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that pulls.

Puller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, pulls.

Pullet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A young hen or female of the gallinaceous kind of fowls.

Pullet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.

Pulley [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. plural pulleys. [Latin polus; Gr. to turn.]

2. A small wheel turning on a pin in a block, with a furrow or groove in which runs the rope that turns it.

3. The pulley is one of the mechanical powers. The word is used also in the general sense of tackle, to denote all parts of the machine for raising weights, of which the pulley forms a part.

Pulley [B. t.] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

Pulley [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.

Pulleys [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pulli [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pullus

Pullicat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of silk handkerchief.

Pullicate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

Pulling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Drawing; making an effort to draw; plucking.

Pulling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pullman car Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.

Pullulate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To germinate; to bud.

Pullulate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A germinating or budding; the first shooting of a bud.

Pullulation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A germinating, or budding.

Pullus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Superiority Roget’s Thesaurus §33

N. superiority, majority, greatness, advantage, pull, preponderance, preponderation, vantage ground, prevalence, partiality, personal superiority, nobility, triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain, crackajack *, supremacy, preeminence, lead, maximum, record, τρικυμία, climax, culmination, transcendence, ne plus ultra, lion's share, benjamin's mess, excess, surplus, (redundancy) 641

V. be superior, exceed, excel, transcend, outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-herod, pass, surpass, get ahead of, over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch, top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out, beat hollow, outstrip, eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint, have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage, turn the scale, kick the beam, play first fiddle, preponderate, predominate, prevail, precede, take precedence, come first, come to a head, culminate, beat &c. all others, bear the palm, break the record, take the cake *, become larger, render larger, (expand) 194

Adj. superior, greater, major, higher, exceeding, great, distinguished, ultra, vaulting, more than a match for, supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning, first-rate, (excellent) 648, unrivaled peerless, matchless, none such, second to none, sans pareil, unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed, superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra, beyond compare, beyond comparison, culminating, transcendent, transcendental, plus royaliste que le roi, more catholic than the pope increased, enlarged

Adv. beyond, more, over, over the mark, above the mark, above par, upwards of, in advance of, over and above, at the top of the scale, at its height, eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, κατ’ ἐξοχήν, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more

Phr. "i shall not look upon his like again", deos fortioribus addesse

Navigation Roget’s Thesaurus §267

N. navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift

V. sail, put to sea, take ship, get under way, set sail, spread sail, spread canvas, gather way, have way on, make sail, carry sail, plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean, walk the waters, navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge, drift, course, cruise, coast, hug the shore, hug the land, circumnavigate, ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam, swim, float, buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade, fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket, take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight, wing one's flight, wing one's way, aviate, parachute, jump, glide

Adj. sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory

Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit

Phr. bon voyage, "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale"

Traction Roget’s Thesaurus §285

N. # traction, drawing, draught, pull, haul, rake, "a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together", towage, haulage

V. draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train, take in tow, wrench, jerk, twitch, touse|, yank

Adj. drawing, tractile, tractive

Printing Roget’s Thesaurus §591

N. printing, block printing, type- printing, plate printing, the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica &c. boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, point system: 4-1/2, 5, 5-1/2, 6, 7, 8 point, etc, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder

V. print, compose, put to press, go to press, pass through the press, see through the press, publish, bring out, appear in print, rush into print, distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout

Adj. printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys

Exertion Roget’s Thesaurus §686

N. exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt, stroke of work, stitch of work, "a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together", dead lift, heft, gymnastics, exercise, exercitation, wear and tear, ado, toil and trouble, uphill work, hard work, warm work, harvest time, labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering, limae labor, industry, industriousness, operoseness, operosity, trouble, pains, duty, resolution, energy

V. exert oneself, exert one's energies, tax one's energies, use exertion, labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm, pull, tug, ply, ply the oar, tug at the oar, do the work, take the laboring oar bestir oneself (be active) 682, take trouble, trouble oneself, work hard, rough it, put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm, fall to work, bend the bow, buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel, work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver, labor day and night, work day and night, redouble one's efforts, do double duty, work double hours, work double tides, sit up, burn the candle at both ends, stick to, work one's way, fight one's way, lay about one, hammer at, take pains, do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost, give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power, use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor, try one's best, try one's utmost, play one's best card, put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost, have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve, spare no efforts, spare no pains, go all lengths, go through fire and water, move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned

Adj. laboring, laborious, operose, elaborate, strained, toilsome, troublesome, wearisome, uphill, herculean, gymnastic, palestric, hard-working, painstaking, strenuous, energetic, hard at work, on the stretch

Adv. laboriously, lustily, pugnis et calcibus, with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado, to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul, through thick and thin, by the sweat of one's brow, suo marte

Phr. aide-toi le ciel t'aidera, "and still be doing, never done", buen principio la mitad es hecha, cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie, "it is better to wear out than to rust out", labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven", le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit, manu forti, ora et labora

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Genesis 8:9

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

Genesis 19:10

But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Genesis 37:28

Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 38:29

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.

Genesis 49:33

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.

Leviticus 14:40

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

Judges 3:21

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

Judges 8:17

And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

Judges 16:3

And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

Judges 16:14

And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web.Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

Ruth 2:16

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

1 Samuel 17:51

Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.

1 Kings 13:4

And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

2 Kings 23:12

And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:15

Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

Ezra 6:11

Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

Ezra 9:3

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

Nehemiah 13:25

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Job 4:21

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’