Pull - Law Dictionary Search Results
distrain
destreindre, literally, to constrict, force, from Old French, from Late Latin distringere to hinder, punish, from Latin, to pull in different directions, distract, from dis- apart + stringere to draw tight] vt 1 : to force or
Injunction
of a dwelling house, blocking up of water-courses, diversion of streams from mills, the back flowage on mills, pulling down of the banks of rivers and exposing adjacent lands to inundation, or neighbouring mills to destruction, etc.
Beard
To take by the beard to seize pluck or pull the beard of a man in anger or contempt
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Nuthook
A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts
Destroy
To unbuild to pull or tear down to separate virulently into its constituent parts to break up the structure and organic existence
Ganz system
canal boats in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels
Frazzle
To fray to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends to tatter used literally and figuratively
Extract
To draw out or forth to pull out to remove forcibly from a fixed position as by traction or suction etc as to extract a
Drawrod
A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car and bears the pull required to draw the train
draw
To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved to pull along to haul to drag to cause to follow
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