pluck

Definitions

• (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
• (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
• (transitive) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
• (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• (UK) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
• Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.