Word "PLUCK" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
strip of feathers
Synonyms:
deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear
Examples:
pluck the capon

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
Synonyms:
pick, plunk
Examples:
he plucked the strings of his mandolin

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
look for and gather
Synonyms:
cull, pick

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Courageous spirit
Pull out theatrical sprite left inside (5)
Guts, spirit (5)
Pull off first of prizes with good fortune (5)
Pull out a€“ courage (5)
Courage needed to play the banjo (5)
Remove, as a 2-Down New York Times Mini 19 Feb 2025
You require some courage to play pizzicato (5)
Courage or spirited determination (5)
Tug removing books from whatever's available (5)
Pull out sharply (5)
Dogged resolution (5)
Courage born out of, (just quietly), good fortune (5)
Pull out feathers (5)
Pull the feathers from in order to prepare for cooking (5)
One way to shape eyebrows
Rescue showing courage (5)
Use tweezers
Remove feathers from a bird, or to force yourself to be brave enough to do something (5)
Courage or sheer good fortune, on the quiet (5)
Pick for courage (5)
Bottle packer's first chance The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Jun 2024
Yank guts! (5)
Play guitar string
Grit needs fortune at the pithead (5)
Yank shows courage
It needs courage to do what harpists do (5)
It takes guts to take feathers from a bird (5)
Having courage to play the guitar? (5)
Remove feathers from (5)
Defeather
Deplume
Pull out hair (5)
Pull out with courage? (5) Puzzler Cryptic 11 Jan 2024
Spirited courage Commuter 10 Jan 2024
Gather the nerve and plug our cupcake ingredients for a change The Guardian Cryptic 05 Dec 2023
Gather the nerve and plug our cupcake ingredients for a change (5,2,7)
Courage grit
Pull out
Gumption New York Times 02 Mar 2023
Spirited courage Wall Street Journal 23 Aug 2022
Pull off getting parking by chance
Boldness The Washington Post Sunday 19 Sep 2021
Courage The Guardian Speedy 07 Mar 2021
Fiddle with a ukulele? New York Times 03 Jan 2021
Shape eyebrows Eugene Sheffer 28 Nov 2020
Remove, as a flower
Pick bottle to take down? The Telegraph Toughie 10 Dec 2019
Pull down? The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Courage The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Pull guitar strings Newsday 29 May 2019
Pull out; bottle The Telegraph Quick 27 Apr 2019
Take off a flower from the stem, say
Local bottle of spirit? Irish Times Crosaire 14 Aug 2018
Pull out from parking lot
Remove a flower from a plant
Courage to pull out The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jan 2018
Line included by Shakespearean character shows courage
Pull feathers off a bird before cooking Irish Times Simplex 08 Aug 2017
Bravery Newsday 15 May 2016
Play guitar or piano getting fortune The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Oct 2015
Courage The Telegraph Quick 03 Jul 2015
Neaten eyebrows Eugene Sheffer 10 Mar 2015
Daring pick The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Feb 2015
Remove feathers Eugene Sheffer 27 Jan 2015
Gather courage
Strip a 17, say — a 17 won't have it?
Pull strings
Play, as a ukulele
Bass-playing move
Pull strings
Courage lacking at first in Shakespearean character
Remove feathers
Yank out
True grit
True grit
Grit
Grit
Deplume, in a way
Moxie
Gritty quality
Courage
Gumption
Get down?
Play pizzicato
Spirit
Make a chicken go bald?
Pull strings
Alger hero's trait
Spunk
Grit
Courage.
Resolution in the face of difficulties.
Fighting spirit.
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