Definition of pluck

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Pluck (v. t.) 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..

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Rape :: Rape (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster..
Pluck :: Pluck (n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal..
Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering..
Singe :: Singe (v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt..
Tug :: Tug (v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl..
Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
Shamrock :: Shamrock (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.
Gameness :: Gameness (n.) Endurance; pluck.
Rash :: Rash (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.
Eradication :: Eradication (n.) The state of being plucked up by the roots.
Pigeon :: Pigeon (v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.
Spunky :: Spunk (n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk..
Plucker :: Plucker (n.) One who, or that which, plucks..
Sand :: Sand (n.) Courage; pluck; grit.
Plucker :: Plucker (n.) A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
Avulse :: Avulse (v. t.) To pluck or pull off.
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