Pick

/pɪk/ · noun

Meaning

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
2. (nautical, slang) An anchor.
3. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
4. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
5. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
6. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
7. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
8. A choice; ability to choose.

Example Sentences

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

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

France and Russia have the pick of our stables.

‘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.

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

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.

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• picks
• picking
• picked
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• pick
• pickest
• pickedst
• picketh
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