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Plucked
Plucked Plucked, a. Having courage and spirit. [R.]
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.
Plucker tube
Plucker tube Pl["u]ck"er tube [So named after Julius Pl["u]cker, a German physicist.] (Physics) (a) 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. (b) Crookes tube.
Plucker tube
Geissler tube Geis"sler tube` (Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Pl["u]cker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.

Meaning of Plucke from wikipedia

- throw your silke or haire in going round about the hooke three times, then plucke first your silke or haire..." So back then there was silk and horse hair...
- to a lyne, that whanne they were throwen, he that did cast thẽ, mought plucke them a****n vnto him, hurlebattes. "Adides" is a misreading or printing error...
- the picture reads: "The Monkey seing nuts in fire Doth force the Cat to plucke them neir; Which showeth the Envious doth not care, Whose House do burne...
- that I wyll not lye to you now & then among; out of our butokes we may plucke the stumpes thus long that we, poore sylye boyes, abyde much woe. Redford's...