Definition of pluck

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

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Pluck :: 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..
Crop :: Crop (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
Pluckily :: Pluckily (adv.) In a plucky manner.
Gamy :: Gamy (a.) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout..
Sand :: Sand (n.) Courage; pluck; grit.
Plucking :: Plucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluc.
Pluck :: Pluck (n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
Evulsion :: Evulsion (n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
Decerption :: Decerption (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.
Vellicative :: Vellicative (a.) Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication..
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.
Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel..
Plucked :: Plucked (imp. & p. p.) of Pluc.
Decerp :: Decerp (v. t.) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.
Rape :: Rape (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster..
Avulse :: Avulse (v. t.) To pluck or pull off.
Plucked :: Plucked (a.) Having courage and spirit.
Extirpate :: Extirpate (v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy..
Pizzicato :: Pizzicato () A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.).
Mortling :: Mortling (n.) Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
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