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- English Word Picker Definition The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
- English Word Picker Definition A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
- English Word Pickerel Definition A young or small pike.
- English Word Pickerel Definition Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
- English Word Pickerel Definition The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.
- English Word Pickering Definition The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.
- English Word Pickery Definition Petty theft.
- English Word Picket Definition A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
- English Word Picket Definition A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
- English Word Picket Definition A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
- English Word Picket Definition By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
- English Word Picket Definition A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
- English Word Picket Definition A game at cards. See Piquet.
- English Word Picket Definition To fortify with pointed stakes.
- English Word Picket Definition To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
- English Word Picket Definition To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
- English Word Picket Definition To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- English Word Picket Definition To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
- English Word Picketed Definition of Picket
- English Word Picketee Definition See Picotee.
- English Word Picketing Definition of Picket
- English Word Picking Definition of Pick
- English Word Picking Definition The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
- English Word Picking Definition The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
- English Word Picking Definition That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
- English Word Picking Definition Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
- English Word Picking Definition The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
- English Word Picking Definition Rough sorting of ore.
- English Word Picking Definition Overburned bricks.
- English Word Picking Definition Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.