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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a.
Nice; careful.
n.
An instrument for picking locks.
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.
v. t.
To pick out; to undo by picking.
n.
The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pick
n.
Rough sorting of ore.
v. t.
To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam.
n.
Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
n.
The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
n.
A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
a.
Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
n.
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
n.
Overburned bricks.
n.
That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
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.
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.