To pull; to draw.

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.

To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

To pull feathers from a bird.

to pull a string and release it quickly, in a jerking motion

the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"

pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"

Pulling the string away from the face in any other direction upon release than that dictated by a correct follow-through.