Index of English words, starting with "pu"

(1) - Pule (v. i.) To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
(2) - Pule (v. i.) To cry like a chicken.

(1) - Puler (n.) One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.

(1) - Puling (a.) Whimpering; whining; childish.
(2) - Puling (n.) A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
(3) - Puling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pule

(1) - Pull (n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
(2) - Pull (v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
(3) - Pull (v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
(4) - Pull (v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
(5) - Pull (v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
(6) - Pull (v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
(7) - Pull (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
(8) - 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.
(9) - Pull (n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
(10) - Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
(11) - Pull (n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
(12) - Pull (n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
(13) - Pull (n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
(14) - Pull (n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
(15) - Pull (n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
(16) - Pull (v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.