Dictionary

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

A choice; ability to choose.

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

Example: Don't pick at that scab.

To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

Example: It's time to pick the tomatoes.

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

Example: She picked flowers in the meadow.

To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

Example: to pick rags