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Plucked

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pluck  (plk)
v. plucked, pluck·ing, plucks
v.tr.
1. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken.
2. To pull out the hair or feathers of: pluck a chicken.
3. To remove abruptly or forcibly: plucked the child from school in midterm.
4. To give an abrupt pull to; tug at: pluck a sleeve.
5. Music To sound (the strings of an instrument) by pulling and releasing them with the fingers or a plectrum.
v.intr.
To give an abrupt pull; tug.
n.
1. The act or an instance of plucking.
2. Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.
3. The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal.

[Middle English plukken, from Old English pluccian, probably from Vulgar Latin *piluccre, ultimately from Latin pilre, from pilus, hair.]

plucker n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.plucked - of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
bowed - of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
2.plucked - having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl; "a plucked chicken"; "an unfeathered goose"
featherless, unfeathered - having no feathers; "a featherless biped"; "the unfeathered legs of an Orpington"


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A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.
At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful purple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it in his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorinda again.
From her breast she plucked it, Parbati the thief, Saw the Least of Little Things gnawed a new-grown leaf
 
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