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▪ I. plucking, vbl. n.|ˈplʌkɪŋ|
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1. The action of the verb pluck, in various senses.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. xiv. (Skeat) I. 78 By my pluckinge was she to foryevenesse enclyned. c1440Promp. Parv. 405/2 Plukkynge, or pullynge of fowlys. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 52 The plucking downe of Images, hath procured vs no smale displeasure. 1837Mrs. Sherwood H. Milner iii. xv, The cant phrase of plucking in our universities. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 239 Let the pass-examination, with its attendant pluckings..cease. 1893Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard Coll. XVI. 195 The southern end of Iron Hill is so much covered with glacial waste that it is not possible accurately to determine the relative amount of plucking which went on there. 1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxii. 366 Rock-masses on the floor or sides of a glacier may be frozen on to, or into, the ice and removed by ‘plucking’ in the onward motion of the glacier. 1952A. Voet Ink & Paper in Printing Process xiv. 149 The separation of the paper-ink-plate union..occurs normally in the ink film... This phenomenon, characterized by partial or complete rupture of the paper stock, is known as ‘picking’ or ‘plucking’. 1959Washington Post 31 July 1/6 Legislation passed this week providing for the ‘plucking’ of some 2500 senior officers was quietly amended..to abolish ‘tombstone promotions’. 1960Gloss. Paper, Stationery Terms (B.S.I.) 11 Plucking, the detachment of superficial zones of the sheet when the adhesion due to an applied external force is higher than the internal cohesion of the paper. 1968Gloss. Formwork Terms (B.S.I.) 19 Plucking, spalling of the concrete face due to adhesion of concrete to the form.
attrib.a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 59 b, Euery man..hauing either lande or substaunce, was called to this pluckyng bancket. 1959W. K. Richmond Brit. Birds of Prey xiii. 150 A cock Sparrow-hawk has several plucking-posts on his beat.
2. concr. Something plucked, in various senses. (Cf. picking vbl. n.1 3 b.)
1648–60Hexham, Het Plucksel van lijnwaet, the Pluckings, or loose Threads of linnen. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 55 Mangel wurzel..would, if permitted to run up,..afford a good plucking of potage vegetables twice a week. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Plucking, the quantity of worsted plucked from the end of the sliffer, or sliver, and folded over the fingers whilst turning the spinning wheel. 1901Scotsman 9 Apr. 4/4 If I were a planter in Assam..I would never rest till the pluckings of my garden became the staple drink of the native artisan.
▪ II. ˈplucking, ppl. a.
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That plucks: see the verb pluck.
1898Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 1/3 Within reach of a plucking hand are the 250 varieties of heather that star the sides of Table Mountain. |