pluck

To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick.

To pull out the hair or feathers of.

To remove abruptly or forcibly.

To give an abrupt pull to; tug at.

To sound (the strings of an instrument) by pulling and releasing them with the fingers or a plectrum.

To give an abrupt pull; tug.

The act or an instance of plucking.

Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.

The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal.

In geology, to pry off or tear away, as blocks of rock from the lee side of cliffs or projections, or more moderate slopes: said of the action of moving ice, as in glaciers. See plucking.