A screen.
Pasture; feed, for animals.
A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
A pickoff.
A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
A choice; ability to choose.
A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
A good defensive play by an infielder.
An interception.
An anchor.
That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
To steal; to pilfer.
To screen.
To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
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.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
A black screen.
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
A hard blow, usually with the fist.
A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
A ship that sails slowly.
The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
A hitchhiking commuter.
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
To make sluggish.
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
To load with a slug or slugs.