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Webster 1828 Edition


Plucking

PLUCK'ING

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ppr.
Pulling off; stripping.

Definition 2024


plucking

plucking

English

Verb

plucking

  1. present participle of pluck

Noun

plucking (plural pluckings)

  1. (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
    • 2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
      Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings [] .