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Definition of Pull back

1. Verb. Pull back or move away or backward. "The limo pulled away from the curb"

2. Verb. Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).

3. Verb. Move to a rearward position; pull towards the back. "Pull back your arms!"

4. Verb. Stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow). "The archers were drawing their bows"

5. Verb. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"

Definition of Pull back

1. Verb. (&lit) To pull in a backwards direction ¹

2. Verb. To retreat ¹

3. Verb. To retract ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive sports) To score when the team is losing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Back

pull-up pull-ups pull a pull a Homer pull a face pull a fast one pull a fast one on pull ahead pull along pull an all-nighter

pull an oar pull apart pull at pull away pull back (current term) pull chain pull down pull factor pull factors pull from the fire

pull in pull in one's horns pull my finger pull off pull on pull one's finger out pull one's head in pull one's own weight

Literary usage of Pull back

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1. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"Pull-back draws. 7. Trunnion bascule-bridges. 8. Rolling bascule-bridges. 9. Jack-knife or folding bridges. 10. Vertical lift-bridges. 11. ..."

2. The British Journal of Photography by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"By this means we would get rid of another pull back, viz., ... Another pull back is to make a small start requires very little money, so that, when a father ..."

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