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- English Word Pluck Definition 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.
- English Word Pluck Definition To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
- English Word Pluck Definition To reject at an examination for degrees.
- English Word Pluck Definition To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
- English Word Pluck Definition The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
- English Word Pluck Definition The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
- English Word Pluck Definition Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
- English Word Pluck Definition The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
- English Word Pluck Definition The lyrie.
- English Word Plucked Definition of Pluck
- English Word Plucked Definition Having courage and spirit.
- English Word Plucker Definition One who, or that which, plucks.
- English Word Plucker Definition A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
- English Word Pluckily Definition In a plucky manner.
- English Word Pluckiness Definition The quality or state of being plucky.
- English Word Plucking Definition of Pluck
- English Word Pluckless Definition Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.
- English Word Plucky Definition Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
- English Word Pluff Definition To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.
- English Word Pluff Definition A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.
- English Word Pluff Definition A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it.
- English Word Plug Definition Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
- English Word Plug Definition A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- English Word Plug Definition A high, tapering silk hat.
- English Word Plug Definition A worthless horse.
- English Word Plug Definition A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
- English Word Plug Definition To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- English Word Plugged Definition of Plug
- English Word Plugger Definition One who, or that which, plugs.
- English Word Plugging Definition of Plug