n. 1. One who, or that which, plucks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So named after Julius Plücker, 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]