Reverse Dictionary: PULL

NOUNS
► CHUG n. a sudden pull; a tug → 1908 Sc. (Bk.)
► FEAK a sharp twitch or pull → 1900 Eng. dial.
► LAAG a pull, a shove → 1899 Sc.
► RICK a tug or pull; a sharp movement → 1892 Sc.
► TIT a sharp and sudden pull; a tug, a jerk, a twitch → 1340 chiefly Sc.
► TWIG a pull; a twitch; a tug; a draught → a1800 Eng. dial.
► TWITCH a sudden sharp pull or tug; a jerk, a pluck, a snatch → 1523
► YANK a tug, a pull, a wrench → E19 sl.
► YARK ► YERK ► YIRK a sudden jerk or pull, a snatch → 1896 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.

VERBS
► ALLY to haul; to draw forcibly; to pull; to drag along → 1783 Eng. dial.
► BETEE to pull or tug at → c1205 obs.
► ELT to handle roughly, to injure anything, such as an animal, the nap of cloth, etc., by too much rough handling; to pull about → 1866 Sc.
► ENDO to heave or pull an object → 1938 Amer. dial.
► FEAK vb. to twitch, to jerk, to pull smartly → 1548 Eng. dial.
► HAG to pull, to draw; to drag out → 1870 Eng. dial.
► HAIL to haul; to draw forcibly; to pull; to drag along → 1783 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAISTER to fatigue with hard work; to pull about roughly; to annoy → 1866 Eng. dial.
► HALE to draw or pull along, esp. with force or violence; to drag, to haul → c1205
► HARL to drag: usually with the notion of friction or scraping of the ground; to pull, to tug; to trail along the ground; to haul → c1290 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HAYL to haul; to draw forcibly; to pull; to drag along → 1783 Eng. dial.
► LAAG to pull, to drag → 1897 Sc.
► LUG 1. to pull, to pull by the ear, hair, etc.; to tease, to worry, to bait a bear, bull, etc. → 1390 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. to pull violently; to carry with effort, there being the implication of ponderousness in the object → M17
► PIGGLE to pull or tug nervously → 1936 Amer. dial.
► PUG to pull, to tug → L16 now Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PULL LIKE A THRESHER to pull strongly → 1866 Eng. dial.
► PUSSIVANT to push or pull a person unceremoniously; to hustle → 1858 obs.
► RACK to pull or tear apart; to separate by force; to break up → 1549 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RAME to pull up → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAMP to snatch, to tear, to pluck; to pull suddenly or sharply → 1567 obs.
► RANCH to pull, to pluck → 1579 obs.
► RANT to rent, to pull, to tear → 1872 Eng. dial.
► RASE to pull or pluck → 1375 obs.
► RASH to pull, to drag down, off, etc.; to tear away → 1523 obs.
► RAUNCH to pull, to pluck → 1579 obs.
► RAVE to pull; to tear up; to tear; to rout out, to disturb → 1889 Eng. dial.
► RAWL to pull roughly about; to carry or draw anything heavy → 1887 Eng. dial.
► REEF to pull or push something vigorously; to tug, to use force on something → 1958 Amer. dial.
► REEZE to pull a person about roughly → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRAB to grab, to snatch, to pull; to steal → 1890 Eng. dial.
► SCRAM to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about → 1892 Eng. dial.
► SCRAMB to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about → 1892 Eng. dial.
► SNAKE to drag or pull forcibly or quickly → 1856
► SOWL vb. to pull, seize roughly, etc., by the ear or ears → 1607
► TAW to pull, to lay hold of → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TAWEN to pull; to lay hold of → 1810 Sc. obs.
► TEW 1. to toil, to labour; to work hard; to pull, to struggle; to contend, to strive → 1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
2. to shake, to toss; to keep in motion; to rumple, to disarrange; to tumble; to pull about → 1870 Eng. dial.
► TIGHT to draw, to pull → a1000 obs.
► TIGMATEEZE to pull one about → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► TIRE to pull, to tug, to draw → a1300 arch.
► TIT to pull forcibly, to tug; to snatch → a1300 chiefly Sc.
► TO-HALE to haul or drag asunder; to pull about → 1387 obs.
► TOIL to pull, to drag, to tug about → c1325 obs.
► TOLL to pull, to drag, to draw physically → a1400-50 obs.
► TO-LUG to lug or pull about → 1362. obs.
► TO-PULL to pull to pieces → c1330 obs.
► TUSH to pull or drag a heavy object along the ground → 1841
► TWICK to pull something sharply or suddenly; to tug; to pluck → a1000 chiefly Eng. dial.
► TWIG to pull, to pluck, to twitch → 1755 Eng. dial.
► TWITCH to pull or jerk something sharply or forcibly; to give a sudden sharp pull or tug at something → c1300
► YAFFLE ► YAFFUL to carry in a loose armful; to pull about → 1895 Eng. dial.
► YANK to tug something with sudden energy; to remove something; to drag, to pull → 1848 sl., orig. US
► YARK ► YERK ► YIRK to pull, push, or throw with a sudden movement; to jerk, to wrench; to force → 1568 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YAWK to pull, to yank; to drag, to jerk → 1840 Amer. dial.
► YUCK to pull, to yank; to drag, to jerk → 1899 Amer. dial.