Crossword-Solution: PLUCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pluck | v. t. | To pull; to draw. |
| Pluck | v. t. | Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. |
| Pluck | v. t. | To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. |
| Pluck | v. t. | To reject at an examination for degrees. |
| Pluck | v. i. | To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown. |
| Pluck | n. | The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. |
| Pluck | n. | The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. |
| Pluck | n. | Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. |
| Pluck | n. | The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4. |
| Pluck | v. t. | The lyrie. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with PLUCK (5)
Each Tree Load’n with fairest Fruit, that hung to the Eye Tempting, stirr’d in me sudden appetite To pluck and eate; whereat I wak’d, and found Before mine Eyes all real, as the dream Had lively shadowd: Here had new begun My wandring, had not hee who was my Guide Up hither, from among the Trees appeer’d, Presence Divine.
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.
Why, Bathsheba, you’ve lost all the pluck and sauciness you formerly had, and upon my life if I had known what a chicken-hearted creature you were under all your boldness, I’d never have—I know what.” A flash of indignation might have been seen in Bathsheba’s dark eyes as she looked resolutely ahead after this reply.
Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and to pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.
Quotes with PLUCK (3)
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if tha…
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect t…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).