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Pluck at   /plək æt/   Listen
Pluck at

verb
1.
Pluck or pull at with the fingers.  Synonyms: pick at, pull at.





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"Pluck at" Quotes from Famous Books



... this moral for the present, may it please your worships and your reverences, I take my leave of you till this time twelve-month, when, (unless this vile cough kills me in the mean time) I'll have another pluck at your beards, and lay open a story to the world you little ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne


Words linked to "Pluck at" :   pull, pull at, pick at


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