pluck

She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.

First of all, he says a lot of the promotions from the ranks are promotions of the sons of officers who have gone wrong , or got "plucked," or what not, and who are brought up again along another road for commissioned rank.

Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.

Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.

Indeed they seem to consider foreigners as strangers whom they should never see again, and might fairly pluck.

Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.

to pluck at somebody's sleeve

He went to college, and he got— plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law[…].