meaning of pluck3
1. To pull; to draw.
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.
3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
4. To reject at an examination for degrees.
5. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at ones gown.
6. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
7. The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
8. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
9. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t. , 4.
10. The lyrie.
11. the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
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