Definition of pick

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Pick (v.) To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information..

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Pickax :: Pickax (n.) Alt. of Pickax.
Garble :: Garble (v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account..
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..
Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
Peck :: Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up..
Pickaninnies :: Pickaninnies (pl. ) of Pickaninn.
Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
Chutnee :: Chutnee (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc..
Bede :: Bede (n.) A kind of pickax.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck..
Spick :: Spick (n.) A spike or nail.
Pickeer :: Pickeer (v. i.) To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon..
Dresser :: Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Pick :: Pick (n.) 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..
Cucumber :: Cucumber (n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
Pickpennies :: Pickpennies (pl. ) of Pickpenn.
Picklock :: Picklock (n.) One who picks locks; a thief.
Piqueerer :: Piqueerer (n.) See Pickeerer.
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