An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Cheap wine.
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To pull or twitch sharply.
To remove feathers from a bird.
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.
A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.
An abnormal passage between body channels.
The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.
A minor collision between vehicles.
A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.
To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
To move data in memory to a physical disk.
To divert the flow of a body fluid.
To carry on arbitrage between the London stock exchange and provincial stock exchanges.
To provide with a shunt.
To divert to a less important place, position, or state.
To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.
To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.
To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.