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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

In the summers Dick found jobs nearby as a janitor, a chicken plucker, a carnival barker.

From Time Magazine Archive

He laid an egg as a chicken plucker.

From Time Magazine Archive

The strings are sounded by a plectrum, or plucker, shaped like an ivory tooth, fastened to the fingers, and drawn backwards and forwards so rapidly that it produces an almost continuous sweet dreamy sound.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)