Word Meanings - PLUCKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak. 2. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

Related words: (words related to PLUCKER)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SETTER
  A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• CLEAN-LIMBED
  With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.
• KINGSHIP
  The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty. Landor.
• KINGSTON VALVE
  A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.
• KINGSTON; KINGSTONE
  The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.
• KINGSTON METAL
  . An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.
• STRAIGHTEN
  1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• CLEAN
  Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• UNKINGSHIP
  The quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy. Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down. Evelyn.