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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Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck..
Muricated :: Muricated (a.) Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences..
Excerptor :: Excerptor (n.) One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
Ravel :: Ravel (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern..
Unpicked :: Unpicked (a.) Not picked.
Voltigeur :: Voltigeur (n.) One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
Cull :: Cull (v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers..
Marinade :: Marinade (n.) A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish..
Piqueer :: Piqueer (v. i.) See Pickeer.
Arsenopyrite :: Arsenopyrite (n.) A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel..
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..
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..
Oilman :: Oilman (n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles..
Picking :: Picking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pic.
Samphire :: Samphire (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles..
Pick :: Pick (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture..
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..
Niere :: niere (n.) One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
Elect :: Elect (v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.
Pale :: Pale (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket..
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