Vocabulary : Pickaxe to Picker

Pickaxe : A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
Pickback : On the back.
Picke : A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
Picked : of Pick ;; Pointed; sharp. ;; Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes. ;; Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men. ;; Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
Pickedness : The state of being sharpened; pointedness. ;; Fineness; spruceness; smartness.
Pickeer : To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
Pickeered : of Pickeer
Pickeerer : One who pickeers.
Pickeering : of Pickeer
Picker : One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. ;; A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber. ;; The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp. ;; A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
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