Plucking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLUCKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• PLUCK, to pull out or off
• take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place
• catch hold of and pull quickly
• (of glacier ice) break off (pieces of rock) by mechanical force.
• quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation
• pull the feathers from (a bird's carcass) to prepare it for cooking
• pull some of the hairs from (one's eyebrows) to make them look neater
• sound (a musical instrument or its strings) with one's finger or a plectrum
NOUN:
• spirited and determined courage
• the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food.

Words related to PLUCKING

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How to use PLUCKING in a sentence

• Sharp, plucking up spirit, ventured to take her hand and squeeze it.
• Is there not many a one who never arrives at fruit, for no better reason than that he persists in plucking his own blossoms? Learn to wait.
• Rising from the ground and plucking forth his knife, Ibrahim sprang at my brother who, unarmed, straightway smote him senseless, and that is talked of in Mekran Kot to this day.
• Oranges, oranges, everywhere, reaching out, it seemed, through the foliage, to the industrious hands that were plucking them from the branches.
• Was I not plucking out my own eye when I caused pain to you? You ought to come back to me and your father.
• May some power keep you from plucking even one of them.
• Often the voyagers would get out and walk along shore, shooting pigeons or squirrels and plucking bunches of grapes.
• The pitiless arm of the god of war had reached across the broad Atlantic, plucking them back from peace and security.
• Frank and Willie accompanied them with their happy countenances and glad voices, and plucking a bunch of fading flowers, presented them to their mother.
• Once, when the wolf was doing this, Old Man caught him, and, plucking out one of his eyes, he put it in his own head.
• Returning from my visit with you, I found him in this hall, plucking a harp and singing love-songs to my wife.
• One was plucking a chicken, another making the straw beds for the night.
• Then she went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange from the low-hanging bough of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she was awake and up.
• Part of it consisted in plucking out all the hairs of his head with the exception of the scalp-lock, of three or four inches diameter.
• Her fingers began again that nervous plucking at the blanket.
• She had released the blind-cord, and was plucking at it mechanically, with fingers that trembled.
• Miss Ellen Nussey well remembers seeing Emily and Anne, on a fine summer afternoon, sitting on stools in this bit of garden plucking currants from the poor insignificant bushes.
• She felt its failure and turned away plucking at a weed near her.
• I did not learn that these Indians are in the habit of plucking the hair from their faces.
• Angry at the cheat, they flew at him, plucking away the borrowed feathers and also some of his own.
• Surely the poor fool was ready for the plucking? But Madame, who sat beside her, frowned upon them both.
• The monks shave the head or remove the hair by plucking it out.
• The pigeon had been plucked that night, not a doubt of it, but her father had had no hand in the plucking.
• In 1875 he made a long tour in Europe, plucking the first fruits of foreign travel, which were succeeded by many rich and dainty gatherings from the same source in later years.
• To sustain a breath is not so dignified as to laugh longer and to do that with that wail is the principal task of more plucking.
• The plucking out of an eye would have given him less pain than the parting with his boy, though he felt from the first that the lad would go.

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