Definition of pick

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Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..

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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..
Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
Gurlet :: Gurlet (n.) A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
Okra :: Okra (n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo..
Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
Pickeered :: Pickeered (imp. & p. p.) of Pickee.
Purslane :: Purslane (n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling..
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..
Pike :: Pike (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack..
Picklock :: Picklock (n.) An instrument for picking locks.
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
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..
Select :: Select (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
Picktooth :: Picktooth (n.) A toothpick.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw..
Pick :: Pick (n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick..
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