Third person singular present tense of deplume: removes or strips feathers from something.
From deplume + -s (third person singular marker). Regular conjugation of the verb deplume.
Most English speakers have never heard this word because we've replaced it with 'pluck' for feathers—showing how English constantly loses old technical terms and replaces them with simpler, more common synonyms.
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