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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Chutnee :: Chutnee (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc..
Picking :: Picking (a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound..
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.
Wale :: Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse..
Wampee :: Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed.
Picksy :: Picksy (n.) See Pixy.
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..
Mispickel :: Mispickel (n.) Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
Picket :: Picket (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
Pick :: Pick (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc..
Pickerel :: Pickerel (n.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species..
Niere :: niere (n.) One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
Spick :: Spick (n.) A spike or nail.
Pickaxe :: Pickaxe (n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes..
Shark :: Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Picking :: Picking (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
Water Hyacinth :: Water hyacinth () Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed..
Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..
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