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What is another word for Plucker?

Pronunciation: [plˈʌkə] (IPA)

The word plucker is commonly used to refer to someone or something that removes feathers from birds or animals. However, there are various synonyms for this word that can be used interchangeably to describe the same thing. These synonyms include picker, puller, stripper, and molt. Apart from these, there are also slang words such as featherman, de-plumer, and fluff-remover that can be used informally. Each of these synonyms offers a slightly different nuance or emphasis on the action of plucking, but they all relate to removing feathers or hair from a living creature.
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A Plucker of plump pigeons, an expensive friend to smart young subalterns and boys about town.
"Blake's Burden"
Harold Bindloss
Matters were rather different when it appeared that the pear was not waiting to drop-when, on the contrary, the pear had pointedly removed itself from the hand of the Plucker, and seemed, if one may vary the metaphor, to have turned into a prickly pear.
"Father Stafford"
Anthony Hope
It was through forgetting in the excitement of the moment and not payin' attention that my pal the winkle Plucker went west.
"No Man's Land"
H. C. McNeile

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