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Offal (/ ˈ ɒ f əl, ˈ ɔː f əl /), also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of edible organs, and these lists of organs vary with culture and region, but usually exclude skeletal muscle .
Zone of plucking in the formation of tarns and cirques Glacially-plucked granitic bedrock near Mariehamn, Åland. Plucking, also referred to as quarrying, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the weathering and erosion of pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks".
Pluck or offal, the internal organs of livestock; One of two U.S. Navy ships named USS Pluck; Pluck (company), an Internet company acquired by Demand Media PLUCK, an RMITV television series
Fuck: The word "fuck" did not originate as an acronym of "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", either as a sign posted above adulterers in the stocks, or as a criminal charge against members of the British Armed Forces; nor did it originate during the 15th-century Battle of Agincourt as a corruption of "pluck yew" (an idiom falsely attributed to the ...
Haggis on a platter at a Burns supper A serving of haggis, neeps, and tatties. Haggis (Scottish Gaelic: taigeis [ˈtʰakʲɪʃ]) is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with chopped onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach [1] though now an artificial casing is often used ...
In classical double bass playing, pizzicato is often performed with the bow held in the hand; as such, the string is usually only plucked with a single finger. In contrast, in jazz, bluegrass, and other non-Classical styles, the player is not usually holding a bow and is therefore free to use two or three fingers to pluck the string.
Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". [2] Diem is the accusative of dies "day". A more literal translation of carpe diem would thus be "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—that is
There is less need to use the fretting hand to damp notes in chords (muting) since the guitarist can pluck only the required strings. A greater variation in strokes is possible, accommodating expressiveness in timbre. A wide variety of strums and rasgueados are possible. Picking with the fingers is useful in almost any genre of music.