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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Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse..
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..
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A troublesome child; as, a little pickle..
Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..
Pickering :: Pickering (n.) The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.
Picking :: Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.
Picker :: Picker (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
Spignel :: Spignel (n.) Same as Spickenel.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color..
Wampee :: Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed.
Pecker :: Pecker (n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc..
Paling :: Paling (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure..
Marinate :: Marinate (v. t.) To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade..
Shark :: Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Pickpurse :: Pickpurse (n.) One who steals purses, or money from purses..
Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
Wale :: Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it..
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