plucker
See also: Plucker
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplʌkə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Noun
plucker (plural pluckers)
- One who plucks.
- 2007 December, “Festive facts at Christmas”, in Cambridge News:
- Irishman Vincent Pilkington is the world's fastest turkey plucker at one minute and 30 seconds. He once plucked 244 turkeys in 24 hours.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Thou setter up and plucker down of kings.
- A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
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