The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PLUCK
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More clues leading to the result PLUCK
- Line included by Shakespearean character shows courage
- Strip a 17, say — a 17 won’t have it?
- Courage lacking at first in Shakespearean character
- Courage to pull out
- Play guitar or piano getting fortune
- Daring pick
- Gather courage
- Resourcefulness, having forgotten line in Shakespearean role
- Pull out from parking lot
- Pull off getting parking by chance
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The straight part
We know that "courage" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case courage = pluck.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does PLUCK mean?
PLUCK noun- An instance of plucking.
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- Cheap wine.
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- To pull or twitch sharply.
- (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.