pick

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Noun

1. A [[tool]] used for digging; a [[pickaxe]].
2. {{lb|en|nautical|slang}} An [[anchor]].
3. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
4. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a [[lock pick]], [[picklock]].
5. A [[comb]] with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
6. {{lb|en|music}} A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a [[plectrum]].
7. {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[pike]] or [[spike]]; the sharp point fixed in the center of a [[buckler]].
8. A [[choice]]; ability to choose.
9. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
10. {{lb|en|AU}} [[pasture|Pasture]]; [[feed]], for animals. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
11. {{lb|en|basketball}} A [[screen]].
12. {{lb|en|lacrosse}} An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

Verb

1. To [[grasp]] and pull with the [[finger]]s or [[fingernail]]s.
2. {{senseid|en|harvest}} To [[harvest]] a [[fruit]] or [[vegetable]] for [[consumption]] by [[remove|removing]] it from the [[plant]] to which it is [[attach]]ed; to harvest an [[entire]] plant by removing it from the [[ground]].
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to [[pluck]].
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
6. To [[decide]] upon, from a set of options; to [[select]].
7. {{lb|en|transitive}} To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. {{lb|en|cricket}} To [[recognise]] the type of [[ball]] being [[bowled]] by a [[bowler]] by [[studying]] the [[position]] of the [[hand]] and [[arm]] as the ball is [[release]]d.
9. {{lb|en|music}} To [[pluck]] the individual strings of a [[musical instrument]] or to [[play]] such an instrument.
10. To open (a lock) with a [[wire]], [[lock pick]], etc.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en}}.

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