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hilt
English
Etymology
From Middle English hilt, hilte, from Old English hilt, hilte, from Proto-Germanic *helt?, *helt?, *helt?, *hiltij?, (compare Old Norse hjalt, Old High German helza, Old Saxon helta), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to strike, cut”) (see holt).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
hilt (plural hilts)
- The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
- Synonym: haft
- Meronyms: grip, guard, crossguard, quillons, pommel
- Holonym: sword
- 2009, James Drewe, Tàijí Jiàn 32-Posture Sword Form, Singing Dragon (?ISBN)
- A partial tang does not extend all the way through the hilt and is normally not more than half the width of the blade. The length of the tang and the width, particularly where it narrows before entering the pommel, vary from sword to sword.
- The base of the penis.
Derived terms
- to the hilt
Translations
Verb
hilt (third-person singular simple present hilts, present participle hilting, simple past and past participle hilted)
- (transitive) To provide with a hilt.
- (transitive) To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
- 2015 Kitsune page 41
- his fingers hilted inside
- 2017 Hot Wife's Secret Sex Life page 25
- He hilted himself inside her.
- 2015 Kitsune page 41
Anagrams
- -lith, Lith., lith, lith-
Middle English
Noun
hilt (plural hiltes)
- Alternative form of hilte (“hilt”)
Verb
hilt
- Alternative form of hiled: past participle of hilen (“to cover”)
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pull
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: po?ol, IPA(key): /p?l/
- (US) IPA(key): [p????]
- Hyphenation: pull
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology
Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”). Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
Verb
pull (third-person singular simple present pulls, present participle pulling, simple past and past participle pulled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- He put forth his hand […] and pulled her in.
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
- 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
- 2011, Russell Simmons, ?Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All
- While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.
- 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
- 2006, Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!
- They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.
- 2006, Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!
- (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
- (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- (intransitive) To row.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
- (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
- 2009, Ardie A. Davis, ?Chef Paul Kirk, America's Best BBQ (page 57)
- If you are going to pull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.
- (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- 2003 April 9, "Richard Lawson" (username), "Monual's Willful Ignorance", in alt.games.everquest, Usenet:
- …we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.
- 2004 October 18, "Stush" (username), "Re: focus pull", in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot, Usenet:
- Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.
- 2005 August 2, "Brian" (username), "Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.
- 2007 April 10, "John Salerno" (username), "Re: Managing the Command Buttons", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….
- 2008 August 18, "Mark (newsgroups)" (username), "Re: I'm a priest now!", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- Shield yourself, pull with Mind Blast if you want, or merely pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.
- 2003 April 9, "Richard Lawson" (username), "Monual's Willful Ignorance", in alt.games.everquest, Usenet:
- (Britain) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- How many points did you pull today, Albert?
- (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- The favourite was pulled.
- (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
- (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- 1888, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Cricket Chapter 2
- Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.
- 1888, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Cricket Chapter 2
- (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- (now chiefly Scotland, England and US regional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.19:
- He and some of his companions one day entered a garden in the suburbs, and having indulged their appetites, desired to know what satisfaction they must make for the fruit they had pulled.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.19:
Synonyms
- (apply force to (something) so it comes toward): drag, tow, tug, yank
- (slang: to persuade to have sex with one): score
- (to remove from circulation): recall, withdraw, yank
- (to do, to perform): carry out, complete, do, execute, perform
- (to retrieve or generate for use): generate, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, lay one's hands on, obtain, retrieve
- (to succeed in finding a person with whom to have sex.): score
Antonyms
- (apply force to (something) so it comes towards one): push, repel, shove
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
See also pulling
Translations
Interjection
pull
- (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
Noun
pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself)
- I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the ring, which was fastened at the top of my box.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
- (figuratively, by extension) An advantage over somebody; means of influencing.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope
- (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star)
- (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A journey made by rowing
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- 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.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- (dated) A contest; a struggle.
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- (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
- (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
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- (cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
- 1887, R. A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine
- The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.
- 1887, R. A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine
- (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
- (printing) A proof sheet.
Synonyms
- (act of pulling): tug, yank
- (attractive force): attraction
- (device meant to be pulled): handle, knob, lever, rope
- (influence): influence, sway
- (a puff on a cigarette): drag, toke (marijuana cigarette)
Antonyms
- (act of pulling): push, shove
- (attractive force): repulsion
- (device meant to be pulled): button, push, push-button
- (influence):
Derived terms
- ring-pull
- rug-pull
Related terms
- on the pull
- pull cord
- ring-pull, ring pull
Translations
Estonian
Etymology
From Low German bulle.
Noun
pull (genitive pulli, partitive pulli)
- bull
- ox
Declension
French
Etymology
Clipping of pull-over, from English pullover.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyl/, /pul/
Noun
pull m (plural pulls)
- pullover
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