To be available to provide comfort and support for someone, especially in a period of difficulty.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, there.
To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc.
To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through.
To come through pain and trouble through perseverance.
The trick of apparently cutting the cards while leaving the deck in the same sequence as before.
A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.