pluck
/plʌk/ noun C2- 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. · He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
- Cheap wine.
Plural plucks
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The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.
If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.
You will find it in the water you drink from the spring, in the fruit you pluck from the tree.”
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