FUR PLUCKER

  

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FUR PLUCKER

Specialty Definition: FUR PLUCKER

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Removes guard hairs (long coarse hairs) from pelts of fur-bearing animals, such as beavers, nutrias, and rabbits, to enhance appearance of finished pelts, using fur plucking device: Wraps forward edge of pelt around rod of movable frame to expose hairs for plucking. Starts device and pushes frame towards rotary head that plucks (cuts off) guard hairs, taking care not to damage shorter hairs in pelt. Wraps remainder of pelt around rod to facilitate complete removal of coarse hairs from pelts. May pluck hairs from pelts, using beaming knife. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FUR PLUCKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-k-l-p-r-r-u-u"

-3 letters: plucker.

-4 letters: cupful, cupule, curler, curule, furler, lurker, pucker, purfle, ruckle, rueful, upcurl.

-5 letters: clerk, cruel, cupel, curer, fleck, fluke, lucre, lurer, pluck, puler, purer, recur, ruler, ulcer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FUR PLUCKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 55 52      50 4C 55 43 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010101 01010010 00100000 01010000 01001100 01010101 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#82 &#32 &#80 &#76 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0052      0050 004C 0055 0043 004B 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405552250465537453952

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