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Pull down   /pʊl daʊn/   Listen
verb
Pull  v. t.  (past & past part. pulled; pres. part. pulling)  
1.
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. "Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows." "He put forth his hand... and pulled her in."
2.
To draw apart; to tear; to rend. "He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate."
3.
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
4.
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
5.
(Horse Racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
6.
(Print.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
7.
(Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. "Never pull a straight fast ball to leg."
To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. "
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." " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud."
To pull a finch. See under Finch.
To pull off, take or draw off.





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"Pull down" Quotes from Famous Books



... temporal," he says, to buy a certain book, "let him come to Westminster in to the Almonry at the Red Pale and he shall have them good cheap." The advertisement ended with some Latin words which we might translate, "Please do not pull down the advertisement." ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... hand have flung, Each face obedient to its passion's law, Each passion clear proclaimed without a tongue; Whether Hope rose at once in all the blood, A-tiptoe for the blessing of embrace, Or Rapture drooped the eyes, as when her brood Pull down the nesting dove's heart to its place; 20 Or Confidence lit swift the forehead up, And locked the mouth fast, like a castle braved— 0 human faces, hath it spilt, my cup? What did ye give me that I ...
— Men and Women • Robert Browning
... and you have seen all there is to see. There's a delightful simplicity about that to me. But I suppose Yoritomo would call this room crowded, nevertheless. How about it, old man? It wouldn't take you fifteen minutes to pull down the curtains and roll up the rug and store them in the 'go-down.' ...
— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes
... long apprenticeship not lost, Learning at last that Stygian Fate Supples for him that knows to wait. The Muse is womanish, nor deigns Her love to him who pules and plains; With proud, averted face she stands To him who wooes with empty hands. Make thyself free of manhood's guild; Pull down thy barns and greater build; The wood, the mountain, and the plain Wave breast-deep with the poet's grain; Pluck thou the sunset's fruit of gold; Glean from the heavens and ocean old; From fireside lone and trampling street Let thy life garner daily wheat; The epic of a man rehearse, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... distress you. I knew you were having a hard-enough pull down there without additional worries. It happened very suddenly while I was out on the road. I got the wire in Peoria. She died very suddenly and quite painlessly. Her companion, Miss Tate, was with her. She had never been ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber


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