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
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
Cosio is no pedestrian plucker; she often reshapes 50 brows a day at $50 a pop, and her clients include Courteney Cox and Susan Sarandon.
From Time Magazine Archive
He laid an egg as a chicken plucker.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anthologist is strictly a plucker of the flowers of literature; but the ballads are not literature—they are lore, and therefore of warmer human interest.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
