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pluckings

/ˈplʌkɪŋz/

pluckings is the plural of plucking.

Meaning of plucking

Noun

plucking (countable and uncountable, plural pluckings)

  1. (gerund) An act in which something is plucked.
    • Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times
  2. A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
    • Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 19341937, Archibald Dixon Shamel, Carl Schurz Scofield, David A. Savage, Wheat Requirements in Europe
  3. The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
    • 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, […]1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415

Questions about pluckings

What is pluckings the plural of?
Pluckings is the plural of plucking.
How do you pronounce pluckings?
Pluckings is pronounced /ˈplʌkɪŋz/.

Words near pluckings in the dictionary

  1. plucking out
  2. plucking post
  3. plucking posts
  4. plucking up
  5. plucking up one's courage
  6. pluckings
  7. pluckless
  8. plucklessness
  9. Pluckley
  10. Pluckrose
  11. plucks

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