Word Meanings - PICKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, that which is pilfered. 5. pl.

Related words: (words related to PICKING)

• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• 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.
• PULVERIZATION
  The action of reducing to dust or powder.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• 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
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• 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.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• UNPICK
  To pick out; to undo by picking.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• EARPICK
  An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
• MISCHOOSE
  To choose wrongly. Milton.