To assume a specific position or attitude.
To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
To take (water) from a well or other source.
To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
To extract (a tooth).
To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
To stretch or elongate.
To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
To draw up, compose (a document).
To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
To become contracted; to shrink.
To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
To require (a depth of water) for floating.
To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
Of a sail, to fill with wind.
To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
To run (a bath).
To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
To consume (power).
A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
The act of drawing.
The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
Cannabis.
The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
A bag of cannabis.
Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place in the ground.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
The combination of process and actuator.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.