pluck
verb (used with object)
to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc..
plucker
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a word derived from
pluck.
Example Sentences
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As a fan of films by Francis Ford Coppola and Ingmar Bergman, Hooper seems surprised that he's turned out to be such a plucker of heart strings.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2012
A onetime Philadelphia chicken plucker, Chubby threw his tubby hips into high gear, and issued an invitation: "C'mon, baby, let's do the twist!"
From Time Magazine Archive
He laid an egg as a chicken plucker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long before there was a New Hampshire, Shakespeare wrote of a "setter up and plucker down of kings," a role that the Granite State has, with variations, assumed to itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a schoolemaister is imprisonment, & plucker downe of loftie courages.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
