1 to retrieve

2 to redeem

1 to urge to stay

2 to detain

1 to save

2 to remedy

3 to rescue

1 to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis

1 to pull

2 to draw (a cart or a bow)

3 to roll up

4 to coil

5 to carry on the arm

6 to lament the dead

7 (fig.) to pull against

8 to recover

1 to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis