pick
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
Noun 4 meanings
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
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.
Verb 4 meanings
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
“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.
“It's time to pick the tomatoes.”
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
“She picked flowers in the meadow.”
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
Etymology
From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”).
PICK at a glance
PICK has 4 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (P 3 + I 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #844 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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