picko (pik)

[Short for pickerel.] A pike or pickerel. [U. S.] pickaback, pickback (pika-bak, pik'bak), adv. [Var. of pickapack, pick pack, simulating back1.] On the back or shoulders like a pack. [Colloq.] For, as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick - back on the old, Much further off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged beast, could see. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 72. Ca IMG:content-0132.png:[blocks in formation] pickeert (pi-kēr'), v. i. [Also piqueer; with accom.term- cer; earlier picquor; Ye garrison wth some commons and the scotch horse picquoring a while close by the walls on the east. Tullie's Narrative of the Siege of Car lisle , p. 6. ( Hall i well .) So within shot she doth pickeer , Now galls the flank, and now the rear. Love lace , Lucasta, ii. Tiridates on his side pickeered about, yet never ap- proached within throw of a dart. Gordon, tr. of Tacitus's Annals, xiii.