[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pick \pick\, n. f. pic a pickax, a pick. see pick, and cf.
   pike.
   1. a sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in
      composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
      1913 webster

   2. mining  mech. a heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes
      pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle
      inserted in the middle, -- used for digging ino the ground
      by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer
      used for dressing millstones.
      1913 webster

   3. a pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a
      buckler. obs. "take down my buckler . . . and grind the
      pick on 't." --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   4. choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick; in cat
      breeding, the owner of a stud gets the pick of the litter.
      1913 webster +pjc

            france and russia have the pick of our stables.
                                                  --ld. lytton.
      1913 webster

   5. hence: that which would be picked or chosen first; the
      best; as, the pick of the flock.
      1913 webster

   6. print. a particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow
      of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot
      on a printed sheet. --mackellar.
      1913 webster

   7. painting that which is picked in, as with a pointed
      pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
      1913 webster

   8. weaving the blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate
      of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per
      minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a
      weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
      1913 webster

   pick dressing arch., in cut stonework, a facing made by a
      pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or
      depressions.

   pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt,
      used by miners.
      1913 webster
see also:
pick pike pick dressing pick hammer 

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