pick

• To take up
• hit lightly with a picking motion
• harass with constant criticism
• To steal
• attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
• To choose
• the person or thing chosen or selected
• the act of choosing or selecting
• remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
• To throw
• the best people or things in a group
• look for and gather
• Choice
• the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
• pay for something
• a basketball maneuver
• eat intermittently
• the quantity of a crop that is harvested
• a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
• a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
• select carefully from a group
• provoke
• remove in small bits
• pilfer or rob
• pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
• To peck at, as a bird with its beak
• To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points
• To open (a lock) as by a wire
• To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers
• To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth
• To trim
• To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels
• To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things
• A sharp-pointed tool for picking
• A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc
• A pike or spike
• That which would be picked or chosen first
• A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet
• That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture
• The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Mexico in Campeche

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