Pick

It's better to amble around, drop the "pick" for a lunchtime swim or beachcomb, then find a nice anchorage for the night.

Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.

France and Russia have the pick of our stables.

‘She's all African grass and Brahmans. There's not a blade of native pick left, except on the ridges.’

The judicious use of fire could have protected valuable nut trees, promoted the growth and seeding of grass and, if practised at a distance from their camps, even attracted herbivores to the sweet young pick.

If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks

so many picks to an inch

Don't pick at that scab.

He picked his nose.

It's time to pick the tomatoes.

She picked flowers in the meadow.

to pick feathers from a fowl

to pick rags

to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket

Did you pick Master Slender's purse?

He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.

He was charged with attempting to pick a pocket, and they found a silver snuff-box on him,--his own, my dear, his own, for he took snuff himself, and was very fond of it.

For the pocket in which Erskine kept this key was not the kind of pocket that Watt could pick. For it was no ordinary pocket, no, but a secret one, sewn on to the front of Erskine's underhose.

I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.

He picked a tune on his banjo.

The lock was of a kind that Watt could not pick. Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.

Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?

I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.

to keep my hands from picking and stealing

as high as I could pick my lance

to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

The pass was almost picked, but the tight end was able to hold on.