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plucker

Variant of pluck

transitive verb

  1. to pull off or out; pick
  2. to drag or snatch; grab
  3. to pull feathers or hair from: to pluck a chicken, pluck eyebrows
  4. to pull at (the strings of a musical instrument) and release quickly with little jerking movements of the fingers
  5. Slang to rob or swindle

intransitive verb

  1. to pull; tug; snatch: often with at
  2. to pluck a musical instrument

noun

  1. an act of pulling; tug
  2. an animal's heart, liver, lungs, and windpipe, used for food
  3. courage to meet danger or difficulty; fortitude

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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