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Word Meanings - UNSTITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.

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  • PICKABACK
    A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
  • COLLIERY
    1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. Johnson.
  • PICK-FAULT
    One who seeks out faults.
  • PICKEER
    To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp.
  • PICKPACK
    Pickaback.
  • PICKET
    A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept
  • PICKPENNY
    A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.
  • PICK-UP; PICKUP
    = Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc. (more info) 1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes
  • PICKSY
    See PIXY
  • PICKTHANK
    One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.
  • PICKEERER
    One who pickeers.
  • PICK
    Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;
  • PICKTOOTH
    A toothpick. Swift.
  • PICKLOCK
    1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor.
  • PICKING
    The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. Simmonds. (more info) 1. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick. 2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering. 3. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned. 4. Pilfering; also,
  • UNSTITCH
    To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.
  • PICKNICK
    See PICNIC
  • PICKLE
    See PICLE
  • PICKMIRE
    The pewit, or black-headed gull.
  • PICKAX; 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. Shak.
  • UNPICK
    To pick out; to undo by picking.
  • EARPICK
    An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
  • MISPICKEL
    Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
  • RAGPICKER
    One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
  • SPICK
    A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

 

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