pickeerert (pikerer)

[Also pickearer, pi qucerer, picquerer; pickable (pik'a-bl), a. [ pick1 + -able .] pable of being picked. pickadilt, pickadillt, n. See piccadill . pick a get, n. See piccage . pickaninny, n. See piccaninny. pickapack, pick pack (pik'a-pak, pik'pak), following the author's steps, for he is now a piequerer , re- adv. [ aback. In a hurry she whips up her darling under her arms, and carries the other a pickapack upon her shoulders. Sir R. L'Estrange. The club pickearer , the robust churchwarden. Fletcher , Poems, p. 190. ( Hall i well .) This I shall concerns of this history, by lates nothing but by way cavil. Roger North , Examen, p. 406. ( Davies .) pickelhaub (pik'el-houb), n . [G. pickelhaube , earlier peckelhaube , bickelhaube , bechelhaube , MHG. peckelhūbe , beckelhūbe , beckenhūbe , bechin In weaving, the part of a picker-staff which strikes the shuttle: it is covered with a material not so hard as to injure the shuttle, and yet durable, such as rawhide. (f) A utensil for cleaning out small openings: thus, the powder-flasks of the sixteenth century were fitted with pickers to clear the tube, and lamps of both antique and modern make are often fitted with a picker hung by a chain. (g) A needlelike instrument used by anglers or fly-tiers in the manufacture of flies. (h) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces: as, a wool - picker. (i) In certain machines for disintegrating fire-clay for making fire-bricks, either one of two horizontal shafts armed with spike-like teeth which revolve in opposite directions, acting jointly to tear, break, and disintegrate the lumps of raw clay fed to them through a hopper. 4. One who or that which steals; a pilferer. If he be a picker or a cut-purse,. the second time he is taken he hath a piece of his Nose cut off. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 241. Ros. My lord, you once did love me. Ham . So I do still, by these pickers and stealers. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 2. 348. 5. A young cod, Gadus morrhua, too small to swallow bait. [Cape Ann, Ma achusetts.] picker-bar (pi (pik'er-bär), n. See mechanical stoker, under stoker.