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    Published 1989
    ...pick v If usable, see smart. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup MAR 1 1989 WK G.M.Story Used I and Sup Used Sup 3...
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    Published 1973
    ...pick v We'd be sat down;my fingers'd be sore sometimes from pickin'. I picked a lot o' wool...
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    Published 1988
    ...pick v Sheperd's Purse. (Picket-pocket.) Common everywhere as a garden weed. PRINTED ITEM SUP...
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    Published 1987
    ...pick v [The first of the main tools of log-driving was] a peeled ten-foot spruce pole with an iron...
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    Published 1987
    ...pick v One class of driver.had the job of rounding up the rear or picking up the stray sticks...
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    Published 1959
    ...pick n n. Bit. "Every _pick_ o' work." G.M.Story July 1959 PRINTED ITEM Used I Used I and Sup...
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    Published 1980
    ...pick n Re-file MAR 1980 Pron item Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used...
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    Published 1971
    ...pick v Pick, vb. To remove fish from nets by hand. G. M. Story AUG 1971 JH AUG 1971 Used Sup Used...
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    Published 1962
    ...pick n A bit. ( Narr p. None. Me stummick's beginnin' to p. To be hungry.) G.M.Story April 1962...
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    ...peck v .just began to come picking snow. [i.e. falling (in a few small ? flakes)] [= pecking??] Yes...
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    Published 1974
    ...pick v .pickin' her geese.ol' woman was pickin' her geese when you see the snowflakes fall,yeah...
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    Published 1971
    ...pick n [My father] and i went [trouting] . . . We trouted all day long and never got a bite ("pick...
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    Published 1974
    ...pick v Oh yes,ol' woma pickin' her goose,wasn't it? Yeah.Ol' woman pickin' her goose again boys...
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    Published 1965
    ...pick v A 9 foot pole with a sharp metal point, used by loggers in 'driving' logs down river. Used I...
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    Published 1976
    ...pick n . . . threat. of calling the attention of/a policeman. This is often used to discourage...
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    Published 1969
    ...pick n O Hehir pioc (pik) bit, jot M 646 Occurs on p.646 of Joyce's Ulysses. . for reasons which...
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    ...pick v The birch from which these brooms were made was always 'picked' i.e.(broken by hand) before...
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    ...pick n _OED_ pick v1 -5 b fig. obs 'To gather' or 'draw' with the mind; to infer, deduce, make out...
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