pluck

Meanings

1. 1
   noun An instance of plucking.
2. 2
   noun The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
3. 3
   noun Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
4. 4
   noun Cheap wine.
5. 5
   verb To pull something sharply; to pull something out
6. 6
   verb To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
7. 7
   verb To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
8. 8
   verb To remove feathers from a bird.
9. 9
   verb To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
10. 10
    verb To play a string instrument pizzicato.
11. 11
    verb To pull or twitch sharply.
12. 12
    verb (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
13. 13
    verb Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.