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
He laid an egg as a chicken plucker.
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
We must not, in short, expect that our roses will grow without thorns: but then they are useful and instructive thorns: which, by pricking the fingers of the too-hasty plucker, teach future caution.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
