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Definition of pick

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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..

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Pikeman :: Pikeman (n.) A miner who works with a pick.

Pickapack :: Pickapack (adv.) Pickaback.

Wampee :: Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed.

Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..

Pickery :: Pickery (n.) Petty theft.

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.

Pick :: Pick (n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Chutnee :: Chutnee (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc..

Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering..

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..

Pickle :: Pickle (n.) See Picle.

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..

Olive :: Olive (n.) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh..

Pickeering :: Pickeering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pickee.

Earpick :: Earpick (n.) An instrument for removing wax from the ear.

Mispickel :: Mispickel (n.) Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

Picket :: Picket (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket..

Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.

Picketing :: Picketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picke.