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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Picklock :: Picklock (n.) One who picks locks; a thief.
Pickapack :: Pickapack (adv.) Pickaback.
Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections..
Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) Fineness; spruceness; smartness.
Spick :: Spick (n.) A spike or nail.
Unstitch :: Unstitch (v. t.) To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket..
Chowchow :: Chowchow (n.) A kind of mixed pickles.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Try :: Try (v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good..
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..
Culler :: Culler (n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market..
Picker :: Picker (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
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..
Picked :: Picked (a.) Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men..
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
Pick :: Pick (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
Pick :: Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock..
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