pluck

fe’l verb

1. To pull something sharply; to pull something out She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
2. To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
3. To rob, fleece, steal forcibly The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.
4. To play a string instrument pizzicato. Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.

ot noun

1. An instance of plucking. Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
2. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
3. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
4. Cheap wine.