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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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            France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
                                                  --Ld. Lytton.
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   5. Hence: That which would be picked or chosen first; the
      best; as, the pick of the flock.
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   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.
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   7. (Painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed
      pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
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   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.
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   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.
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