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Plucking or tweezing can mean the process of human
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hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's
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. In humans, hair removal is done for personal grooming purposes, usually with
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. An epilator is a motorised hair plucker. Those under the influence of
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or trichotillomania may pluck their own hair out of habit.
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s employed personnel solely to pluck hair from their
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s' bodies. In birds and animals, plucking is usually carried out by humans, sometimes called ''pluckers'', to the
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of the subject as part of
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Poultry

Feathers can be removed either manually or in a tumbling machine. Both methods require the feathers to be first loosened by submerging the slaughtered bird in hot water. Manual plucking involves pulling out the larger feathers then removing the down with a rubbing action. Automated plucking machines use rubber posts protruding from the inside of a spinning drum to pull the feathers from the bird. This process takes less than 30 seconds, whereas manual plucking typically takes several minutes.


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Eyebrow An eyebrow is an area of short hairs above each eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of the brow ridges of some mammals. In humans, eyebrows serve two main functions: first, communication through facial expression, and second, prev ...
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Feather-plucking Feather-plucking, sometimes termed feather-picking, feather damaging behaviour or pterotillomania, is a maladaptive, behavioural disorder commonly seen in captive birds that chew, bite or pluck their own feathers with their beak, resulting in d ...
, a behavioural disorder in captive birds *
Unibrow A unibrow (or jacco brow or monobrow; called synophrys in medicine) is a single eyebrow created when the two eyebrows meet in the middle above the bridge of the nose. The hair above the bridge of the nose is of the same color and thickness as ...


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