Definition of pick

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Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock..

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Select :: Select (v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal..
Picketing :: Picketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picke.
Pick :: Pick (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc..
Mattock :: Mattock (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax..
Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering..
Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
Lariat :: Lariat (n.) A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering..
Muricated :: Muricated (a.) Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences..
Excerp :: Excerp (a.) To pick out.
Meaking :: Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Pickeered :: Pickeered (imp. & p. p.) of Pickee.
Picket :: Picket (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences..
Pickaninnies :: Pickaninnies (pl. ) of Pickaninn.
Pickback :: Pickback (adv.) On the back.
Marinate :: Marinate (v. t.) To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade..
Pick :: Pick (n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock..
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..
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..
Cull :: Cull (v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers..
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
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