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Plucker

Plucker \Pluck"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, plucks.

    Thou setter up and plucker down of kings.
    --Shak.

  2. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

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plucker

n. 1 One who plucks. 2 A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

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Plucker

Plucker is an offline Web and free e-book reader for Palm OS based handheld devices, Windows Mobile ( Pocket PC) devices, and other PDAs. Plucker contains POSIX tools, scripts, and "conduits" which work on Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Unix. Web pages can be processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.

Usage examples of "plucker".

The peelers and mincers and pluckers found their places under tables, among the kitchen dogs.

The mincers, boners, pluckers, spit-boys and peelers fell on the leftovers like mice, then scattered again under tables, to the hearths, out of the way of the bakers and washers and the disgusted plucker who had to do pots, and who left trails of ash and grease behind her as she hauled dirty pots across the kitchen.

What had become clear was that Brad McAfee was, to use his own colorful language, a thimblerigger, a pigeon plucker, a hornswoggler.

Brad McAfee was, to use his own colorful language, a thimblerigger, a pigeon plucker, a hornswoggler.