Look up: plucking

1. Plucking
   A process in which the guard hairs of a fur are removed by tweezing or plucking In some cases, only the uneven or coarse hairs are plucked It is necessary to pluck the furs before shearing them
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2. Plucking
   A process of glacial erosion by which blocks of rock are loosened, detached, and borne away from bedrock by the freezing of water in fissures.
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3. Plucking
   Removing feathers from poultry and game.
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4. plucking
   The removal of guard hairs or top hairs. Category: Management in the public and private sector
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5. Plucking
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluck
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6. Plucking
   Erosive process of particle detachment by moving glacial ice. In this process, basal ice freezes in rock surface cracks. As the main body of the glacial ice moves material around the ice in the cracks is pulled and plucked out. Also called quarrying.
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7. Plucking
   The process of harvesting the tea by cutting the flush from the growing tea plant.
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8. Plucking
   (glaciation) and cirques. Glacial `plucking` exploits pre-existing fractures in the bedrock. This plays a key role in opening and creating new fractures but has only provided small segments of loose material. This is then followed by the entrainment of the loosened rock by the ice. During the...
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9. Plucking
   (hair removal) `Plucking` or `tweezing` can mean the process of removing human hair, animal hair or a bird`s feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner`s body. In humans, this is done for personal grooming purposes, usually with tweezers. An epilator is a motorised hair plucker....
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