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Definition of Pluck

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Lyrie Ly"rie (l[imac]"r[i^]), n. [Icel. hl[=y]ri a sort of fish.] (Zo["o]l.) A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
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Pluck Pluck, n. 1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. 2. [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.] The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. 3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. --Thackeray. 4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4. 5. (Zo["o]l.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.]

Meaning of Pluck from wikipedia

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- Plucking or tweezing can mean the process of human hair removal, removing animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's...
- USS Pluck is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy: USS Pluck (AMc-94), a coastal minesweeper placed in service 6 October 1942. USS Pluck (MSO-464)...
- Pluck was a British boys' story paper published by the Amalgamated Press in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although it never reached the same level...
- Mackenzie Pluck (born April 12, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Brooklyn FC of the USL Super League. She...
- In mathematics, a Plücker formula, named after Julius Plücker, is one of a family of formulae, of a type first developed by Plücker in the 1830s, that...
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