Definition of pluck

• v. t. - To pull; to draw.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
• v. t. - To reject at an examination for degrees.
• v. i. - To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
• n. - The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
• n. - The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
• n. - Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
• n. - The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
• v. t. - The lyrie.