intransitive verb. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick.

intransitive verb. To pull out the hair or feathers of.

intransitive verb. To remove abruptly or forcibly.

intransitive verb. To give an abrupt pull to; tug at.

intransitive verb. To sound (the strings of an instrument) by pulling and releasing them with the fingers or a plectrum.

intransitive verb. To give an abrupt pull; tug.

noun. The act or an instance of plucking.

noun. Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.

noun. The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal.

noun. A pull; a tug; a twitch; a snatch: as, he gave the sword a pluck.

noun. A blow; a stroke.

noun. A bout; around.

noun. The heart, liver, and lungs or lights of a sheep, ox, or other animal used as butchers' meat: also used figuratively or humorously of the like parts of a human being.

noun. Hence Heart; courage; spirit; determined energy; resolution in the face of difficulties.

noun. The pogge, Agonus cataphractus.

In geology, to pry off or tear away, as blocks of rock from the lee side of cliffs or projections, or more moderate slopes: said of the action of moving ice, as in glaciers. See plucking.

To pull sharply, as if at the folds of a skirt: used with at.

In geology, to break off easily in large pieces, as granite. See plucking.

To pull off, as feathers from a fowl, or fruit or flowers from a plant; pick off; gather; pick or cull, as berries or flowers.

To pull; draw; drag: used either literally or figuratively.

Especially To pull sharply; pull with sudden force or jerk; give a tugor twitch to; twitch; snatch; twang, as the strings of a harp or guitar.

To strip, as a fowl, by pulling off its feathers; strip the feathers from: as, to pluck a fowl.

To reject, after a university or other examination, as not coming up to the required standard.

To summon or muster up: as, to pluck up courage, spirit, etc.

Intrans., to collect one's self; gather spirit or courage.

intransitive verb. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at.

transitive verb. To pull; to draw.

transitive verb. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick

transitive verb. To strip of, or as of, feathers.

transitive verb. To reject at an examination for degrees.

transitive verb. to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away.

transitive verb. to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state.

transitive verb. to pull or tear off.

transitive verb. To gather up; to summon.

noun. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

noun. The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

noun. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

noun. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

noun. The lyrie.

verb. To pull something sharply; to pull something out

verb. To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

verb. To remove feathers from a bird.

verb. To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

verb. To play a string instrument pizzicato

verb. To pull or twitch sharply

noun. An instance of plucking

noun. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

noun. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

verb. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

verb. look for and gather

"His words set me thinking, and I had to recognise, rather bitterly, that what I call pluck did not form a great part of my birthright."

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