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Traditional English :: picker
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picker.html - n.
1 a person or thing that picks.
2 (often in comb.) a person who gathers or collects (hop-picker; rag-picker). |
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Traditional English :: pickerel
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picker.html - n.
(pl. same or pickerels) a young pike. [ME, dimin. of PIKE(1)] |
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Traditional English :: pickelhaube
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picker.html - n.
hist. a German soldier's spiked helmet. [G] |
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Traditional English :: picker
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picker.html - n.
1 a person or thing that picks.
2 (often in comb.) a person who gathers or collects (hop-picker; rag-picker). |
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Traditional English :: pickerel
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picker.html - n.
(pl. same or pickerels) a young pike. [ME, dimin. of PIKE(1)] |
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Traditional English :: picket
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picker.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a person or group of people outside a place of work, intending to persuade esp. workers not to enter during a strike etc.
2 a pointed stake or peg driven into the ground to form a fence or palisade, to tether a horse, etc.
3 (also picquet, piquet) Mil. a a small body of troops sent out to watch for the enemy, held in readiness, etc. b a party of sentries. c an outpost. d a camp-guard on police duty in a garrison town etc. --v. (picketed, picketing)
1 a tr. & intr. station or act as a picket. b tr. beset or guard (a factory, workers, etc.) with a picket or pickets.
2 tr. secure (a place) with stakes.
3 tr. tether (an animal). picket line a boundary established by workers on strike, esp. at the entrance to the place of work, which others are asked not to cross. picketer n. [F piquet pointed stake f. piquer prick, f. pic PICK(2)] |
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