pluck up

Definitions

1. 1

   To remove or acquire by plucking from, for example, the ground

   To remove or acquire by plucking from, for example, the ground; to pick up.

   • "If I could have settled down," I said to Biddy, plucking up the short grass within reach, much as I had once upon a time pulled my feelings out of my hair and kicked them into the brewery wall: […]
   • As rumoured for some time, 18-year-old Ethan Gage was plucked up by English Championship club Reading FC Monday. Gage trained in Vancouver with the MLS club
2. 2

   To become more cheerful.

3. 3

   To summon positive emotion (especially courage)

   To summon positive emotion (especially courage); to muster.

   • Thenne was there but sporynge and pluckynge vp of horses and ryghte so they cam to the fyre. "Then was there but spurring and plucking up of horses, and right so they came to the fire."
   • […] But she knew that she must pluck up courage for an important moment, and she collected herself, braced her muscles, as it were, for a fight, and threw her mind into an attitude of contest.
   • Every ten minutes they consulted together as to who could pluck up the courage to ask some passer-by the time. The passers-by were all back street people.

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