Definition of pluck : 1. 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. 2.
Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. 3. The act
of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See
Pluck, v. t., 4. 4. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. 5.
The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. 6. The lyrie. 7. To
make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to
pluck at one's gown. 8. To pull; to draw. 9. To reject at an
examination for degrees. 10. To strip of, or as of, feathers;
as, to pluck a fowl. piece, negociate, pull in, bustle about,
bring, tweak, pull off, pat, gather up, bone, cabbage, range,
extract, plank, turn over, blend, shoot, purloin, hock, pilfer,
baton, dress, preen, rob, rive, heroics, beat out, plump, roll,
accompany, overstretch, walk, attract, roam, lift, dive, swan,
souse, pull out, fi