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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii. 9.

Poultry. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.

Plucked; pilled; moulting. " A pulled hen." Chaucer.

Poultry. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, pulls. Proud setter up and puller down of kings. Shak.

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] Shak.

To raise or lift by means of a pulley. [R.] Howell.

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.

A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More.

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

Resembling an ampulla.

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.