pull

To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.

When I give the signal, pull the rope.

Pull your belt tight before starting off, will you?

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).

to pull fruit from a tree

pull flax

To attract or net; to pull in.

Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.

While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.

To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.

I pulled at the club last night.

He's pulled that bird over there.

To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).

Wow, Joyce pulls, actually.

Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.

An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).

He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.

She took several pulls on her cigarette.

An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.

The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.

iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet

An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.

The hypnotist exerted a pull over his patients.

Tresham's up to his eyes in dock business and town business, a regular jobmonger, he has no use for anybody who hasn't a pull.

The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.

I don't have a lot of pull within the company.

She wants to work in the villages, and she has a lot of pull with some ministers and there she is, like a political supervisor.

Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.

a zipper pull