pullback

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or process of pulling back, especially an orderly troop withdrawal.
2. n. A device for holding or drawing back: a pullback for heavy draperies.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That which keeps one back or restrains; a drawback.
2. n. In modern costume for women, a contrivance by which the folds of the skirt behind were held together closely, so that the skirt in front was drawn tightly and hung straight down. It was in fashion about 1885.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal
2. n. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
3. n. architecture The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
4. n. finance A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
5. n. category theory Given a pair of morphisms and with a common codomain, Z, their pullback is a pair of morphisms and as well as their common domain, P, such that the equation is satisfied, and for which there is the universal property that for any other object Q for which there are also morphisms , ; there is a unique morphism such that and .

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
2. n. (Arch) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

WordNet 3.0

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