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Pluck Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Pluck?
[n] the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
[n] the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury [v] pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" [v] look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [v] strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [v] pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush" [v] rip off; ask an unreasonable price [v] sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and esp. underhanded activity Synonyms | Synonyms for Pluck: cull | deplumate | deplume | displume | fleece | gazump | gutsiness | hook | hustle | overcharge | pick | pluckiness | plume | plunk | pull | rob | roll | soak | surcharge | tear Related Terms | Find terms related to Pluck: accumulate | amass | assemble | avulse | backbone | bare | bleed | bleed white | bob | boldness | bottle | bottom | bravery | bring in | bring together | bust | catch at | chutzpah | collect | courage | crop | crop herbs | cull | cut | cut out | dauntlessness | denudate | denude | deplume | deracinate | despoil | determination | dig | dig out | dig up | disentangle | displume | divest | drain | draw | draw out | dredge | dredge up | dry | eradicate | evolve | evulse | excavate | excise | exhaust | expose | exsect | extract | extricate | fail | flay | fleece | flick | flip | flirt | flounce | flunk | flunk out | fortitude | gameness | gather | gather in | get in | get out | get together | glean | gouge out | grab | grabble | grit | grub | grub up | guts | gutsiness | guttiness | hardiness | harvest | hay | heart | heart of oak | hitch | impoverish | intestinal fortitude | intrepidity | jerk | jig | jigger | jigget | jiggle | jog | joggle | lay bare | lay open | mettle | mettlesomeness | milk | mine | mow | moxie | nerve | nut | pick | pick clean | pick out | pick up | pith | pluck out | pluck up | pluckiness | plunk | pull | pull out | pull up | quarry | rake out | rake up | reap | reap and carry | remove | resolution | resolve | rip out | root out | root up | round up | sand | scare up | scrape together | scrape up | shear | skin | snake | snatch | spirit | spunk | spunkiness | stamina | start | steadfastness | stout heart | stoutness | strip | strip bare | strum | sturdiness | suck dry | sudden pull | sweep the strings | take out | take up | tear out | thrum | toughness | true grit | twang | tweak | twitch | uncloak | uncover | unearth | unravel | unsheathe | unveil | uproot | vellicate | wash out | weed out | withdraw | wrench | wrest out | yank | yerk See Also | beat | berry | bill | catch | charge | cheat | chisel | collect | cull out | discover | draw | extort | fearlessness | find out | force | garner | gather | get a line | get wind | get word | gouge | hear | learn | mushroom | pick off | pick over | pick up | pluck | pull | pull off | pull together | pulling | rack | receive | rip off | see | sieve out | steal | strip | twang | tweak | tweeze | wring Pluck In Webster's Dictionary \Pluck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plucked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plucking}.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G.
pfl["u]cken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka.
?27.]
1. To pull; to draw.
Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution.
--Je?. Taylor.
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.
--Milton.
E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And
plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.
--Goldsmith.
3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
They which pass by the way do pluck her. --Ps.
lxxx.?2.
4. (Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for
degrees. --C. Bront['e].
{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. --Jer. xii. 17.
(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. \Pluck\, n. 1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. 2. [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.] The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. 3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. --Thackeray. 4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See {Pluck}, v. t., 4. 5. (Zo["o]l.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.] |
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