Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak.

He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii. 9.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. Lam. iii. 11.

Never pull a straight fast ball to leg. R. H. Lyttelton.

To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. " South. -- 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." Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." Roscommon. -- To pull a finch. See under Finch. -- To pull off, take or draw off.

To pull apart, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart. -- To pull up, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt. -- To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like.

I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box. Swift.

Two pulls at once;
His lady banished, and a limb lopped off. Shak.

The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket. R. A. Proctor.