v (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
v To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
v (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
v (transitive, intransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
v (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
v (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
v (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
v (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
v (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
v To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
v (intransitive) To row.
v (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
v To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
v (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
v (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
v (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
v (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
v (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
v (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
v (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
v (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
v (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
v (now chiefly Scotland, England and US regional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
v (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
v (computing) To get the latest version of a project's source code
v (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
n An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
n An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
n (figurative, by extension) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
n (uncountable, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
n Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
n (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.
n Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
n (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
n A journey made by rowing.
n (dated) A contest; a struggle.
n An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
n (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
n (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
n (cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
n (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
n (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
n (printing) A proof sheet.