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Definition of Pluckers
1. plucker [n] - See also: plucker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluckers
Literary usage of Pluckers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-of-war at Ceylon by Jan N. Brink (1904)
"In general, wages are very low in Ceylon. In the southern parts of the island
the orange-pluckers get 2l/s d. per day; ..."
2. Tea Machinery, and Tea Factories: A Descriptive Treatise on the Mechanical by Alexander James Wallis-Tayler (1900)
"The pluckers have to go round the gardens at intervals of from five to eight ...
It is the pluckers' duty to avoid gathering too coarse leaves or unripe ..."
3. The Apple Culturist: A Complete Treatise for the Practical Pomologist by Sereno Edwards Todd (1871)
"With one of this kind of fruit-pluckers, having a light handle eight or ten feet
long, a man can pluck fruit rapidly while standing on the ground. ..."
4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1870)
"The object of dividing the pluckers is to keep the leaves separate for the
manufacture of each class of tea, when brought into the factory for manipulation. ..."
5. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1856)
"I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to the pluckers ... the fulfilment
of the words: " and my cheeks to the pluckers"— plucking the cheeks, ..."
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