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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Picke :: Picke (n.) A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
Try :: Try (v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock..
Dresser :: Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
Picklock :: Picklock (n.) An instrument for picking locks.
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..
Mispickel :: Mispickel (n.) Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
Sauger :: Sauger (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel..
Bilimbing :: Bilimbing (n.) The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases..
Spignel :: Spignel (n.) Same as Spickenel.
Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..
Pickmire :: Pickmire (n.) The pewit, or black-headed gull..
Pickpocket :: Pickpocket (n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
Pick :: Pick (n.) 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..
Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
Pale :: Pale (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket..
Pick :: 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..
Picking :: Picking (n.) Rough sorting of ore.
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