plucked
pluhkt
- v pull or pull out sharply
- v sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- v rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- v pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
he plucked the strings of his mandolin - v strip of feathers
- v look for and gather
- a of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
- s having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
a plucked chicken
- After a day's induction with tea-tasting sessions and a guided tour of the factory to see how luscious, freshly plucked leaves are processed into green, white, oolong and black .
- With $800 to his name, he arrived in New York City in 1985 and was plucked from obscurity to assist Geoffrey Beene.
- Do and Ti, or Bo and Peep, or the Two, as Applewhite and his former partner Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles were known, plucked bits of this and pieces of that doctrine like birds .