pull through

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To come through pain and trouble through perseverance.
2. 2
   To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc.
3. 3
   To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through.

Noun

1. 1
   Misspelling of pull-through.
2. 2
   An exercise in which weight is pulled via a cable passed between the legs.
3. 3
   A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.
4. 4
   The trick of apparently cutting the cards while leaving the deck in the same sequence as before.