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To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. Shak.

ansmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.

Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

re I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.

To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [Obs.] Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. Shak. Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. B. Jonson.

A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.

To pull violently; to touse. [Obs.]

, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like. Knight. Angle of traction (Mech.), the angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts. -- Traction engine, a locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.

Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

ront of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.

To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.

An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.