2. Noun. (context: gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plucking
1. pluck [v] - See also: pluck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plucking
Literary usage of Plucking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Geology by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1920)
"ice movement, the conditions are more effective for prying and plucking, ...
Diagram to illustrate plucking England, the ice swept away by ice when the ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... dropp'd Gasping for breath ; but short the pain, nor long Ere brave Meriones
was at his side, plucking the spear ; then darkness veil'd his eyes. ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving (1868)
"plucking of a prosperous man. — A vagabond toilet.— A substitute for the very
tine horse. — Hard travelling. — The uninvited guest and the patriarchal colt. ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"SEPTEMBER—plucking A GOOSE A'TER my papa's death, as he left me no money, and
only a little land, I put my estate into an auctioneer's hands, and determined ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... nor the apostles after him; but he bade them, that would have been plucking
up the tares, " let the tares and the wheat grow together until the harvest. ..."
6. Agricultural Geology by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1920)
"ice movement, the conditions are more effective for prying and plucking, ...
Diagram to illustrate plucking England, the ice swept away by ice when the ..."
7. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... dropp'd Gasping for breath ; but short the pain, nor long Ere brave Meriones
was at his side, plucking the spear ; then darkness veil'd his eyes. ..."
8. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving (1868)
"plucking of a prosperous man. — A vagabond toilet.— A substitute for the very
tine horse. — Hard travelling. — The uninvited guest and the patriarchal colt. ..."
9. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"SEPTEMBER—plucking A GOOSE A'TER my papa's death, as he left me no money, and
only a little land, I put my estate into an auctioneer's hands, and determined ..."
10. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... nor the apostles after him; but he bade them, that would have been plucking
up the tares, " let the tares and the wheat grow together until the harvest. ..."
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