pluck
verb (used with object)
to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc..
well-plucked
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a word derived from
pluck.
Example Sentences
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Amid unsettling small sounds, sliding tones, long-held pitches and well-plucked heartbeat strings, the violas, in their middle-way range and manner, kept the balance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Dicky was well-plucked though, bad as he was.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
She was a well-plucked woman for seventy-five, was Bessie Bussow; and had a head on her shoulders too.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He was not interested in the well-plucked skeleton.
From The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
Two-toed Thomas, Terror of the Dyaks, and Pest of the North Pacific, truly thou art a well-plucked one.
From Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
