Word Meanings - UPPLUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pull or pluck up.

Related words: (words related to UPPLUCK)

• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• PLUCK
  To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck
• PLUCKINESS
  The quality or state of being plucky.
• PLUCKY
  Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.
• PLUCKLESS
  Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.
• PLUCKILY
  In a plucky manner.
• PLUCKER
  1. One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak. 2. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
• UPPLUCK
  To pull or pluck up.