picker bend (piker bend)

A piece of buffalo-hide, lined but not otherwise se dre ed, attached to the shuttle by power-loom weavers. pickerel (pik'e-rel), n. [Formerly also pickrell; Old fi h and yonge fle h wolde I han fain, Bet is, quod he, a pyk than a pykerel , And bet than olde boef is the tendre veel. Chaucer , Merchant's Tale, 1. 175. Mir. for Mags., 302. ( Nares .) When as the hungry pickerell doth approach. 2. A kind of pike: so called in the United States. The common pickerel of North America is Esox reticu lat us. It has scaly cheeks and opercles, and from fourteen to sixteen branchiostegal rays; the color is green Common Pond-pickerel ( Esox reticulatus). ish, relieved by narrow dark lines in reticulated pattern. It ranges from Maine to the Mi i ippi, and is the commonest fish of the kind. The vermiculated pickerel, E. vermiculatus, has scaly cheeks and opercles, and about twelve branch ios teg als, and the color is greenish with pickerel nus. pickerel, the western trout-pickerel, Esox vermiculatus . -Marsh-pickerel, Esox american us . - Pond-pickerel, Esox reticulatus . Trout-pickerel, the banded pickerel, Esox american us . - Varied pickerel, Esox american us . - Yellow pickerel, the pike-perch. pickerel-weed (pik'e-rel-wed), n. 1. Any plant of the genus Pontederia , but chiefly P. cordata , of the eastern half of North America. It is a handsome erect herb common in shallow water, with arrow-head-shaped leaves, all but one from the root, and a dense spike of blue flowers from a spathe-like bract. 2. Any of various species of Potamogeton , or pondweed. Pickerel- weed , of which, I told you, some think pikes are I. Walton , Complete Angler, viii. bred. of cattle; wornil. pick ering (pik'e-ring), n. pickerel.] 1. A pickerel. [Local, U. S.]-2. A percoid fish, the sauger, Stizostedion can a dense. picker in gite (pik'e-ring-īt), n. [Named after cence. picker-motion (pik'er-mō"shon), n. In weaving, the system of parts in a loom which have to do with operating the shuttle, including the picker-staff and its connections.