Wiktionary
n. A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by ''pulling through'' a piece of cloth. vb. 1 to come through pain and trouble through perseverance 2 to clean the barrel of a firearm using a ''pull through''
WordNet
v. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull round, come through, make it] [ant: succumb]
bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack" [syn: save, carry through, bring through]
Usage examples of "pull through".
The long pull through the pure air, if it had tired him, had revived him, and he felt stronger.
I shall miss you very much, James, but we shall pull through, and there's nothing like doing a kindness when 'tis put in your way, and I am glad I can do it.
Lady Rosario has him in a maximum-security ward with handpicked Wasps watching him round-the-clock, and Captain Okanami thinks he'll pull through, but he'll be hospitalized for months.
The lot of towheads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome people and all kinds of mean folks, but if we minded our business and didn't talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the free states, and wouldn't have no more trouble.
Two of them were placed in receivership, another liquidated completely, and the fourth was able to pull through by switching to the manufacture of tablecloths and American flags.
I don't know what a total depletion will do for his long-term health, but for now, I think he'll pull through.
I called there a couple of times, but Lucille said he was too sick to see anybody, the doctor wanted him kept very quiet, and maybe he wasn't going to pull through.
But don't you fret, and we'll pull through somehow, see if we don't.