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Pick-Up
- - Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
Pickaxe
- noun - a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"
Pickeer
- - To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
Pickers
- noun - a person who chooses or selects out
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
Pickets
- noun - a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
- serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"
Pickett
- noun - American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous charge at Gettysburg (1825-1875)
Pickier
- adjective - exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
Picking
- verb - attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
- eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
- harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother"
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
- pilfer or rob; "pick pockets"
- provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel"
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"
- select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"
- the act of pic
Pickled
- verb - (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid
- preserve in a pickling liquid