Definition of pick

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Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc..

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Picket :: Picket (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses..
Pikeman :: Pikeman (n.) A miner who works with a pick.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections..
Pickpurse :: Pickpurse (n.) One who steals purses, or money from purses..
Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..
Pickle :: Pickle (n.) See Picle.
Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
Twibil :: Twibil (n.) A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Pick :: Pick (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket..
Pick :: Pick (v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..
Pickeering :: Pickeering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pickee.
Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..
Paling :: Paling (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure..
Cull :: Cull (v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers..
Auriscalp :: Auriscalp (n.) An earpick.
Picking :: Picking (a.) Nice; careful.
Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..
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