different between picker vs pickery

English

Etymology

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

picker (plural pickers)

1. Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
2. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.

3. (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
4. (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
5. (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
7. (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
8. (archaic) A pilferer.

Hyponyms

Translations

Anagrams

• repick, ripeck

English

Etymology

From pick (“to steal”), or perhaps from pickeer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k??i/
• Rhymes: -?k??i

Noun

pickery (plural pickeries)

1. A place where cotton is picked.
2. (Scotland) petty theft

   • If any man be taken with theft or pickery, and thereof convicted, he shall have his head polled, and hot pitch poured upon his pate […]