What is the name meaning of PICKING. Phrases containing PICKING
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly from Middle English Old French personal name Pic (see Pike 6) + the diminutive suffix -in.
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v. t.
To pick out; to undo by picking.
n.
An instrument for picking locks.
n.
The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
v. i.
To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
n.
A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
n.
A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
n.
The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
n.
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
n.
The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
n.
That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
v. t.
To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam.
a.
Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
n.
The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
n.
A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pick
n.
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
n.
Rough sorting of ore.
n.
Overburned bricks.
n.
Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
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Nice; careful.