Plucking

Verb

1. Present participle of pluck

Full definition of plucking

Noun

1. (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked
• 2007, April 27, The New York Times, Pop and Rock Listings, Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings and precise, ecstatic harmonies, all arranged slightly out of whack ...
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