pull

He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.

The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.

The hypnotist exerted a pull over his patients.

a zipper pull

In weights the favourite had the pull.

As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.

a wrestling pull

Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.

Heah , Sam Johnsing , jis' take a pull at dis bottle, an' it will make yo' feel better .

The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.