Pluck: alternatives and connections

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

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To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away…

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A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…

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An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

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Same as Arrack.

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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A tang. See Tang a state.

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A surgeon's case of instruments.

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To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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of Pull

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A wicker fish basket.

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A handle; a stale, or stele.

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To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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To throw; to pitch.

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To throw; to pitch.

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One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.

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One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.

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Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.

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Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.

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A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To uncover.

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To uncover.

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To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

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To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

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The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

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A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

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To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.

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To throw; to pitch.

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The quality or state of being plucky.

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A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mi…

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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

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