Pull
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
(2): ( v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
(3): ( v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
(4): ( n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
(5): ( v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
(6): ( v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; - hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
(7): ( n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
(8): ( v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
(9): ( n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
(10): ( 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.
(11): ( v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
(12): ( n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
(13): ( v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
(14): ( n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
(15): ( n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
(16): ( n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
King James Dictionary [2]
Pull, L vello.
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.
Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in to him into the ark. Genesis 8
2. To pluck to gather by drawing or forcing off or out as, to pull fruit to pull flax. 3. 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.
To pull down, to demolish or to take in pieces by separating the parts as, to pull down a house.
1. To demolish to subvert to destroy.
In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than to build up.
2. To bring down to degrade to humble.
To raise the wretched and pull down the proud.
pull off, to separate by pulling to pluck also, to take off without force as, to pull off a coat or hat.
To pull out, to draw out to extract.
To pull up, to pluck up to tear up by the roots hence, to extirpate to eradicate to destroy.
PULL, n. The act of pulling or drawing with force an effort to move by drawing towards one.
1. A contest a struggle. 2. Pluck violence suffered.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to take down," is translated "I will pull down" in Luke 12:18 . See Destroy , No. 3.
Jude 1:23Snatch. Acts 23:10 Matthew 7:4 Luke 6:42Cast Luke 14:5Draw 2—Corinthians 10:4Cast
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Psalm 31:4 (b) This action indicates the way that GOD delivers His child from the evil plans and wicked ways of the ungodly.
