Picked
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɪkt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Picked is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of pick.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of pick.
More Meanings
- (often in combinations) Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
- Chosen; selected.
- (music) Played by picking the strings
- (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
- (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
- (obsolete) pointed; sharp
Example Sentences
the picked dogfish
Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pickax, pickaxe, woof, weft, nibble, pluck.
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