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Pluck   /plək/   Listen
verb
Pluck  v. t.  (past & past part. plucked; pres. part. plucking)  
1.
To pull; to draw. "Its own nature... plucks on its own dissolution."
2.
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; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude." "E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile."
3.
To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. "They which pass by the way do pluck her."
4.
(Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away.
To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state.
to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin.
to pluck up.
(a)
To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluck up a nation.
(b)
To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage.


Pluck  v. i.  To make a motion of pulling or twitching; usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.


noun
Pluck  n.  
1.
The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
2.
The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
3.
Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. "Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck."
4.
The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
5.
(Zool.) The lyrie. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Pluck" Quotes from Famous Books



... some natives who came running from that side. A big induna blazed at me, missed me, and then fumbled at his belt for another cartridge. It was not a proper bandolier he had on, and I saw him trying to pluck out the cartridge instead of easing it up from below with his finger. As I got my horse steady and threw my rifle down to cover him, he suddenly let the cartridge be and lifted an assegai. Waiting to make sure of my aim, just as his arm ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... only for the bones I hate those eels cod yes Ill get a nice piece of cod Im always getting enough for 3 forgetting anyway Im sick of that everlasting butchers meat from Buckleys loin chops and leg beef and rib steak and scrag of mutton and calfs pluck the very name is enough or a picnic suppose we all gave 5/- each and or let him pay it and invite some other woman for him who Mrs Fleming and drove out to the furry glen or the strawberry beds wed have him examining all the horses toenails first like he does ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... and out, and his pluck was gone, And he said to me in a gloomy way: "I've wasted my chances, one by one, And I'm just no good, as the people say. Nothing ahead, and my dreams all dust, Though once there was something I might have been, But I wasn't game, and I broke my trust, And I ...
— All That Matters • Edgar A. Guest
... to the air, at your time of life, as you could once.—I will box with you, said the Professor, row with you, walk with you, ride with you, swim with you, or sit at table with you, for fifty dollars a side.—Pluck survives ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... poor in beauty thus content remain To see their jealous cause revenged in thee, And their fair foes afflicted with like pain. Lo, the clear proof of thy divinity; For unto God is only due this praise The highest to pluck down, ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles - Delia - Diana • Samuel Daniel and Henry Constable


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