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Pluck At
- verb - pluck or pull at with the fingers; "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse"
Pluckier
- adjective - marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine"
- showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"
Pluckily
- adverb - in a plucky manner; "he was Brentford's defensive star in pluckily holding out the determined Reading raids for long periods"
Plucking
- verb - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
Poachard
- - A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water widgeon, or red-headed widgeon. (b) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.
Poachers
- noun - a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
- small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
- someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
Poaching
- verb - cook in a simmering liquid; "poached apricots"
- cooking in simmering liquid
- hunt illegally; "people are poaching elephants for their ivory"
Podcasts
- verb - distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer
Poncelet
- - A unit of power, being the power obtained from an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in centimeters.
Poncirus
- noun - one species: trifoliate orange