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A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
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An anchor.slang
- It's better to amble around, drop the "pick" for a lunchtime swim or beachcomb, then find a nice anchorage for the night.
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A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
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A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
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A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
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A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
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A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.obsolete
- Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.
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A choice; ability to choose.
- France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
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That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
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Pasture; feed, for animals.Australia
- ‘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.
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To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- Don't pick at that scab.
- He picked his nose.
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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.
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To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- She picked flowers in the meadow.
- to pick feathers from a fowl
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To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- to pick rags
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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
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To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
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To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.transitive
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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.
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To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- He picked a tune on his banjo.
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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.