Vocabulary : Plowing to Pluck

Plowing : of Plough
Plowland : Alt. of Plougland
Plowman : Alt. of Ploughman
Plowpoint : Alt. of Ploughpoint
Plowshare : Alt. of Ploughshare

Plowtail : Alt. of Ploughtail
Plowwright : Alt. of Ploughwright
Ploy : Sport; frolic. ;; To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
Ployment : The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.
Pluck : 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 reject at an examination for degrees. ;; 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. ;; The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. ;; Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. ;; The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4. ;; The lyrie.

Next : Plucked, Plucker, Plucker tube, Pluckily, Pluckiness, Plucking, Pluckless, Plucky, Pluff, Plug
Previous : Plow, Plowable, Plowbote, Plowboy, Plowed, Plower, Plowfoot, Plowgang, Plowgate, Plowhead
Index : Sanjeev.NET : Vocabulary