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- English Word Pick Definition A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
- English Word Pick Definition A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- English Word Pick Definition A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
- English Word Pick Definition Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
- English Word Pick Definition That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
- English Word Pick Definition A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
- English Word Pick Definition That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- English Word Pick Definition The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
- English Word Pick-fault Definition One who seeks out faults.
- English Word Pickaback Definition On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.
- English Word Pickaninnies Definition of Pickaninny
- English Word Pickaninny Definition A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.
- English Word Pickapack Definition Pickaback.
- English Word Pickax Definition Alt. of Pickaxe
- English Word Pickaxe Definition A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
- English Word Pickback Definition On the back.
- English Word Picke Definition A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
- English Word Picked Definition of Pick
- English Word Picked Definition Pointed; sharp.
- English Word Picked Definition Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
- English Word Picked Definition Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.
- English Word Picked Definition Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
- English Word Pickedness Definition The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
- English Word Pickedness Definition Fineness; spruceness; smartness.
- English Word Pickeer Definition To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
- English Word Pickeered Definition of Pickeer
- English Word Pickeerer Definition One who pickeers.
- English Word Pickeering Definition of Pickeer
- English Word Picker Definition One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
- English Word Picker Definition A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.