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Pickax
- 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"
Picked
- 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"
Picker
- noun - a person who chooses or selects out
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
Picket
- 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"
Pickle
- noun - informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
- preserve in a pickling liquid
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
Pickup
- noun - a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
- a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man"
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
- mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
- the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup"
Picnic
- noun -
- a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
- any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion
- eat alfresco, in the open air; "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday"
Picoid
- - Like or pertaining to the Pici.
Picots
- noun - an edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon