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- noun Plural form of
plucking .
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Examples
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Hard hands plucked and prodded at Tolteca, ripped his garments with their curious pluckings.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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Thus began Ackerman's new label, Gang of Seven, a name he chose mostly because it sounded nothing like the genteel pingings and pluckings of Windham Hill.
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After all these callings hither and thither, these pluckings and searchings, I shall fall alone through this thin sheet into gulfs of fire.
The Waves 2003
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Gentle guitar pluckings floated along the ocean breeze in a sensual serenade.
Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003
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The old shivers run through me, hatred and terror, as I feel myself grappled to one spot by these hooks they cast on us; these greetings, recognitions, pluckings of the finger and searchings of the eyes.
The Waves 2003
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Stick lesser pluckings and cuttings in anywhere, anyhow, until the sides are closed.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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Still, I was now wishing I had paid a little more attention to Fergus's frantic mumblings and pluckings at my sleeve.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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These are but random pluckings from a rich blossoming.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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"From one hundred plants, pluckings for the table were made twice a week, from the middle of November to the middle of January; and these fresh from the open garden, although the thermometer in the time had indicated a temperature approaching to zero."
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It is a sure bearer; and, as the pods are produced in succession, pluckings may be made from day to day for many weeks.
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