plucking
noun/ˈplʌkɪŋ/
1
Gerund, Of pluck 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
Media, Printing, Publishing 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:
- Derived terms
- ear plucking, ripe for the plucking