LekhoriLekhoriTo pull something sharply; to pull something out
She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
First of all, he says a lot of the promotions from the ranks are promotions of the sons of officers who have gone wrong , or got "plucked," or what not, and who are brought up again along another road for commissioned rank.
To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
From Middle English plucken, plukken, plockien, from Old English pluccian, ploccian (“to pluck, pull away, tear”), also Old English plyċċan ("to pluck, pull, snatch; pluck with desire"), from Proto-We...
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He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.