pull (v.) Copy link Outline A. Trans.B. Intrans., to seek to move by applying force • pull (v.): A. Trans.: To pull at, twitch, pluck: vello, velli, vulsum, 3, and vellĭco, 1: vellere coepi et prensare manu lentissima brachia, Hor. Sat. 1, 9, 63: esp. to p. or twitch the ear as a "gentle hint:" vellicata blande auricula suscitavit, Paul. Nol. Ep. 36, 3: puer, quid fieret interrogatus, a paedagogo se vellicari respondet, that his master pulled his ears, Quint. 6, 1, 41: fig., cum canerem reges et proelia, Cynthius aurem vellit, et admonuit, etc., Virg. E. 6, 4: vellit saepius aurem invida paupertas, Calp. E. 4, 155. In this sense TO PULL is usu. followed by a prep.: v. to pull away, down, etc. B. Intrans., to seek to move by applying force: expr. by nītor, enitor: vires adhibeo s. admoveo, etc.: pull with all your might, men, *totas, viri, adhibete vires: with all their p.ing they could not stir the chariot, *quamvis intentis niterentur viribus currum loco movere non poterant: the waters foam as they p. (in rowing) spumant adductis freta versa lacertis, Virg. Aen. 5, 141: now, now, p. at your oars! nunc, nunc, insurgite remis! ib. 189.
pull (s.) Copy link Outline 1. tractus, ūs2. nīsus, ūs (any effort; as in Quint. 8, 4, 9, ad summum non pervenit nisu sed impetu) • pull (s.): The act of pulling: 1. tractus, ūs: a steady p., modicus t., Plin. 9, 46, 70 (tractatus, Sillig). 2. nīsus, ūs (any effort; as in Quint. 8, 4, 9, ad summum non pervenit nisu sed impetu): v. effort, exertion.
PULL Copy link • PULL 1. v. trahere: attrahere (to pull toward one’s self). To pull back, retrahere: to pull down, (aedificium) destruere (opposed to construere), demoliri (with violence): evertere (e.g., a statue): disjicere (e.g., walls, fortifications, statues): discutere (to shatter to pieces; a column, part of a wall, etc.). To PULL OFF, detrahere alicui aliquid, de aliqua re; abscindere (☞ not abscidere); avellere (to pluck off, pull off): abrumpere (to break off): to pull off fruit from trees, poma ex arboribus avellere (Cic., Cat., Maj., 19, 71, Orelli): to pull off bars from doors, claustra portarum avellere: to pull off clothes, exuere (opposed to induere; to be distinguished from deponere, to put off; opposed to amicire): to pull off anyone’s clothes, exuere aliquem veste; exuere or detrahere alicui vestem; one’s own clothes, se exuere vestibus; vestes sibi detrahere: to pull off anyone’s shoes, aliquem excalceare; one’s own shoes, excalceari, excalceare pedes: to make another pull off one’s shoes, pedes excalceandos praebere alicui. To PULL OUT, PULL UP, vellere, evellere; revellere (to tear away): intervellere (to pull out here and there, to pull out in part): eruere (PROP., to dig out; eyes and teeth): extrahere (to draw out). To pull up by the roots, radicitus vellere, evellere, extrahere; exstirpare: to pull out a tooth, dentem evellere (alicui); dentem eximere (alicui): to pull out one’s eyes, oculos alicui eripere or eruere. 2. s. tractus, -ūs; or rather by the verbs.