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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Excerptor :: Excerptor (n.) One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
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..
Pickler :: Pickler (n.) One who makes pickles.
Bill :: Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock..
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc..
Bunter :: Bunter (n.) A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman..
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..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out..
Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers..
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.
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..
Pickpurse :: Pickpurse (n.) One who steals purses, or money from purses..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
Pickthank :: Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively..
Knockings :: Knockings (n. pl.) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore..
Picknick :: Picknick (n.) See Picnic.
Picking :: Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.
Esox :: Esox (n.) A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel..
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