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- English Word Picketing Definition of Picket
- English Word Picking Definition of Pick
- English Word Picking Definition The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
- English Word Picking Definition The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
- English Word Picking Definition That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
- English Word Picking Definition Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
- English Word Picking Definition The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
- English Word Picking Definition Rough sorting of ore.
- English Word Picking Definition Overburned bricks.
- English Word Picking Definition Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
- English Word Picking Definition Nice; careful.
- English Word Pickle Definition See Picle.
- English Word Pickle Definition A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
- English Word Pickle Definition Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
- English Word Pickle Definition Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
- English Word Pickle Definition A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
- English Word Pickle Definition A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
- English Word Pickle Definition To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
- English Word Pickle Definition To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
- English Word Pickle-herring Definition A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.