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;