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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pluck/plʌk/
▶verb
  • 1 take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place.

    ■ catch hold of and pull quickly.

  • 2 pull the feathers from (a bird's carcass) to prepare it for cooking.

    ■ pull some of the hairs from (one's eyebrows) to make them look neater.

  • 3 sound (a stringed musical instrument) with one's finger or a plectrum.
▶noun
  • 1 spirited and determined courage.
  • 2 the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food.
– phrases
pluck up courage summon up enough courage to do something frightening.
– derivatives
plucker noun.
– origin OE ploccian, pluccian, of Gmc origin.



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a brand plucked from the burning

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