I play a lot of Irish music and there is a technique used often called an Irish Roll. Its a sequence of 4-7 notes with the first note picked or plucked and the subsequent 3-6 played as a rapid series of hammers and pulls.Each individual note in the sequence has no set time value, but the sequence as a whole has the value of a single quarter or eighth. The sound decays through the sequence so the pulls are what re-energizes the sound and keeps it audible throughout.
Generally, the pulls involve actively plucking the note with the pulling finger. I always pull down (towards the treble side) and lift at release which puts energy back into the string allowing for the next note to sound clearly.
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