pluck
31pluck — [plʌk] verb 1) [T] to take someone or something quickly from a particular place Rescue crews plucked survivors from the sea.[/ex] 2) [T] to pull the feathers off the body of a dead bird so that it can be cooked 3) [I/T] to pull the strings of a… …
32pluck — Lyrie Ly rie (l[imac] r[i^]), n. [Icel. hl[=y]ri a sort of fish.] (Zo[ o]l.) A European fish ({Peristethus cataphractum}), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; called also {noble},… …
33Pluck — Recorded in many spellings including Plack, Plak, Plugue, and Pluck, this is apparently a surname of Flemish French origins. It was originally recorded in England in the 17th Century at the various French Huguenot churches, indicating that the… …
34pluck — verb Pluck is used with these nouns as the object: ↑chicken, ↑eyebrow, ↑feather, ↑guitar, ↑leaf, ↑string …
35pluck up — phr verb Pluck up is used with these nouns as the object: ↑courage …
36pluck at — PHRASAL VERB If you pluck at something, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply but gently. [V P n] The boy plucked at Adam s sleeve …
37pluck — (of a male) to copulate with DAS says Rhyming euphem. for the taboo fuck . However, to pluck a rose was to copulate with a female virgin, and the imagery may come from the gathering of a flower …
38pluck — verb 1》 take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place. ↘catch hold of and pull quickly. 2》 pull the feathers from (a bird s carcass) to prepare it for cooking. ↘pull some of the hairs from (one s eyebrows) to make them… …
39pluck — 1. verb 1) he plucked a thread from his lapel Syn: remove, pick (off), pull (off/out), extract, take (off) 2) she plucked at his T shirt Syn: pull (at), tug (at), clutch (at), snatch (at), grab …
40pluck — v 1. pull, pull off, pull out, draw, draw out, withdraw, remove, extract, take out; collect, gather, gather or get in, cull, glean; harvest, reap, crop, pick, cut. 2. tug, tug at, pull, pull at, hitch, hitch up, hike, hike up; twitch, vellicate,… …
