pick

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1. 1

   A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

2. 2

   argotAn anchor.

   It's better to amble around, drop the "pick" for a lunchtime swim or beachcomb, then find a nice anchorage for the night.

3. 3

   A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

4. 4

   A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

5. 5

   A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

6. 6

   A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

7. 7

   obsolèteA pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

   Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.

8. 8

   A choice; ability to choose.

   France and Russia have the pick of our stables.

9. 9

   That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

10. 10

    Pasture; feed, for animals.

    ‘She's all African grass and Brahmans. There's not a blade of native pick left, except on the ridges.’

    The judicious use of fire could have protected valuable nut trees, promoted the growth and seeding of grass and, if practised at a distance from their camps, even attracted herbivores to the sweet young pick.

11. 11

    A screen.

12. 12

    An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

13. 13

    An interception.

14. 14

    A good defensive play by an infielder.

15. 15

    A pickoff.

16. 16

    vieilliA particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

    If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks

17. 17

    That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

18. 18

    The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

    so many picks to an inch

    Leaving a tail 2 yd long for hemstitching, weave 3 picks of plain weave and use the tail to hemstitch in groups of 8 warp ends. Weave 3 more picks of plain weave, then begin the pattern treadling following the draft in Figure 2, beginning with the border.

verbe

1. 1

   To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

   Don't pick at that scab.

   He picked his nose.

2. 2

   To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

   It's time to pick the tomatoes.

3. 3

   To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

   She picked flowers in the meadow.

   to pick feathers from a fowl

4. 4

   To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

   to pick rags

5. 5

   To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

   to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket

   Did you pick Master Slender's purse?

   He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.

   He was charged with attempting to pick a pocket, and they found a silver snuff-box on him,--his own, my dear, his own, for he took snuff himself, and was very fond of it.

6. 6

   To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

   I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

   She had to pick her steps to avoid the flutters of the quivering, bleeding bodies.

7. 7

   To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.

8. 8

   To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.

   He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.

9. 9

   To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

   He picked a tune on his banjo.

10. 10

    To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

    The lock was of a kind that Watt could not pick. Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.

11. 11

    To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

    Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?

12. 12

    To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

    I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.

13. 13

    To steal; to pilfer.

    to keep my hands from picking and stealing

14. 14

    obsolèteTo throw; to pitch.

    as high as I could pick my lance

15. 15

    vieilliTo 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.

16. 16

    To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

    to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

    Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

17. 17

    To screen.

18. 18

    familierTo intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.

    The pass was almost picked, but the tight end was able to hold on.

Formes

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