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  2. Offal - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Pizzicato - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    Plucking is a method of playing on instruments such as the veena, banjo, ukulele, guitar, harp, lute, mandolin, oud, and sitar, using either a finger, thumb, or quills (now plastic plectra) to pluck the strings. Instruments normally played by bowing (see below) may also be plucked, a technique referred to by the Italian term pizzicato.

  5. Plucking - Wikipedia

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    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; Pluck (magazine), British story paper running from 1894 to 1916 under Amalgamated Press; Lee Pluck (born 1982), footballer

  6. Violin technique - Wikipedia

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    One is to clench the bow in the right hand, rest the right thumb on the right side of the finger board, then pluck the string. This position can enhance the tonal quality of the pluck and can reduce fatigue during long durations of plucking. Another pizzicato position is to maintain the bow grip, then pluck the strings with the right index finger.

  7. Haggis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    It is in fact derived from Greek ἀδάμας, meaning indomitable. There was a further confusion about whether the substance referred to is diamond or lodestone. Buck: The use of "buck" to mean "dollar" did not originate from a practice of referring to African slaves as "bucks" (male deer) when trading. [52] "

  9. Carpe diem - Wikipedia

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    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