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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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Plucker :: Plucker (n.) A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

Nerve :: Nerve (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution..

Pluckiness :: Pluckiness (n.) The quality or state of being plucky.

Gameness :: Gameness (n.) Endurance; pluck.

Eradication :: Eradication (n.) The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

Game :: Game (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky..

Eradicate :: Eradicate (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated..

Eradication :: Eradication (n.) The state of being plucked up by the roots.

Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck..

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..

Vellicative :: Vellicative (a.) Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication..

Decerptible :: Decerptible (a.) That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away..

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.

Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt..

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.

Decerption :: Decerption (n.) That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.

Plucking :: Plucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluc.

Haggis :: Haggis (n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck..

Pulled :: Pulled (a.) Plucked; pilled; moulting.

Lyrie :: Lyrie (n.) A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead..