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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 one's 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 
Related wordsdraw off pick pinch pluck pull strip twang tweeze |
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