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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Chosen :: Chosen (p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
Unstitch :: Unstitch (v. t.) To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam..
Salmagundi :: Salmagundi (n.) A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions..
Guards :: Guards (n. pl.) A body of picked troops; as, The Household Guards..
Paling :: Paling (n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure..
Toothpicker :: Toothpicker (n.) A toothpick.
Oilman :: Oilman (n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles..
Potargo :: Potargo (n.) A kind of sauce or pickle.
Picklock :: Picklock (n.) An instrument for picking locks.
Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket..
Pickaninny :: Pickaninny (n.) A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant..
Meaking :: Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..
Mango :: Mango (n.) The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market..
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..
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.
Piccalilli :: Piccalilli (n.) A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies..
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