plucking

noun3

1. •
   An act in which something is plucked.

   • Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […]. — 2007
2. •
   A fragment of something obtained by plucking.

   • Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934 — 1937
3. •
   The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.

   • Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […] — 1959