pull back


Meanings

  • a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back;
  • (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops);
  • pull back or move away or backward;
  • use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
  • move to a rearward position; pull towards the back;
  • stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow);
  • make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;