pull in Copy link Outline I. Trans. = checkII. Intr. = check oneself, draw back, retracto, 1 • pull in, or up: i. e. stop or draw back: I. Trans. = check: contrăho, 3: to p. in the two horns, bina cornua c., Plin. 9, 22, 38. Phr.: to pull up (horses), premere habenas, Virg. Aen. 1, 63: adducere habenas, Cic. Am. 13, 45: (used fig. in both places). II. Intr. = check oneself, draw back, retracto, 1: sive retractabis sive properabis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76.