(informal, idiomatic) To deceive someone.

(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. / To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.

(sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.

An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself). / An attractive force which causes motion towards the source. / (figuratively, by extension) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.

(UK, Ireland, India) Certain private schools, particularly (initially) any grammar school operated apart from the personal lands of its students or (from the 19th century) the feepaying secondary schools which developed from or were modelled upon them; a British boarding school

A type or form of for-profit incorporated company where ownership is divided into shares that are publicly tradeable usually in a stock exchange.

(transitive) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action. / (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.

The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction. / A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime. / A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. / (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.