pluck vs sole

pluck

verb
  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

sole

verb
  • To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. 

  • to put a sole on (a shoe or boot) 

adj
  • Unique; unsurpassed. 

  • With independent power; unfettered. 

  • Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed. 

  • Only. 

noun
  • The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. 

  • The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes. 

  • A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel. 

  • The bottom of a furrow. 

  • The bottom of a shoe or boot. 

  • The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade. 

  • The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts. 

  • The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat 

  • Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae. 

  • The bottom of an embrasure. 

  • The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes. 

  • A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. 

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