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
His mother, Mrs. Sophie Lenefsky, is an accomplished chicken plucker who has feathered her nest over the years by hard work in a chicken market.
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 J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke
