to draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.-to draw apart; to tear; to rend.-to gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.-to move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.-to hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.-to take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.-to strike the ball in a particular manner. see pull, n., 8.-to exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.-the act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.-a contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.-a pluck; loss or violence suffered.-a knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.-the act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.-the act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.-something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.-a kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.