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PLUCKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
Classified under:
Similar:
pizzicato ((of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Antonym:
bowed (of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
Example:
an unfeathered goose
Classified under:
Similar:
featherless; unfeathered (having no feathers)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pluck
Context examples:
The knife with which the crime had been committed was a curved Indian dagger, plucked down from a trophy of Oriental arms which adorned one of the walls.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the extreme limits of his reason.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She begged him to choose it for himself, but he refused to do that—I could not understand why—so she plucked it for him, and gave it into his hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was dozing myself in the evening when someone plucked my sleeve, and I found Challenger kneeling beside me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he plucked Martin and added him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He went to college, and he got—plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is such a dissipated young man, they will never make much of him, I think.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There was his lord and his eight-score comrades, and they must be plucked from the jaws of death.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He sprang forward to enter, but the specter plucked him back, and waved threateningly before him a...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She killed two fowls, scalded them, plucked them, put them on the spit, and towards evening set them before the fire, that they might roast.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Tom Owen and his assistant, Fogo, with the help of the ring-keepers, plucked up the stakes and ropes, and carried them off across country.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
