plucking
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Pronunciation
Verb
plucking
- present participle and gerund of pluck
Noun
plucking (countable and uncountable, plural pluckings)
- (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
- A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
- 1937, Archibald Dixon Shamel, Carl Schurz Scofield, David A. Savage, Wheat Requirements in Europe:
- Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934
- (printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
- 1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415:
- Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
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