Meaning of টান in English

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To pull or draw with force; to drag.
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
See Hals.
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
Snug; close; firm; secure.
The quality or condition of being tight.
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