The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pull \Pull\, v. i. To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
To pull apart, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart.
To pull up, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt.
To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like.
Usage examples of "to pull up".
For scarcely were they over the river when a horseman barred their way, and called upon the driver to pull up.
The baby was over a year old now, and scampering everywhere, to pull up flowers and trample in them, tumble the baskets and tear at skirts, until Elis grew quite exasperated.
Chore completed, he slid behind his desk, and motioned for Chapel and Sarah to pull up chairs on either side of him.
He waited for the Mercedes to pull up behind him, his eyes trained on the rearview mirror.
If he was going to confess to anything, this was the time to get it: while he was emotionally weak, before he had a chance to pull up the shields and regroup, before he could utter the L word.
She had not bothered to pull up her cloaks hood, and Wynn wondered how she could stand the cold.
With only one engine and extensive damage, he didn't have the control or the fuel for a hover landing, or to pull up and try for a better glide angle.
His hands actually trembled with the urge to pull up her nightgown.
If you attempt to pull up and root out any sin in you, which shows on the surface,--if it does not show, you do not care for it,--you may have noticed how it runs into an interior network of sins, and an ever-sprouting branch of them roots somewhere.