(pik) v.t.
1. To choose; select; cull, as from a group or number.
2. To detach; pluck, as with the fingers or beak: to pick a flower.
3. To gather or harvest: to pick cotton.
4. To prepare by removing the feathers, hulls, leaves, etc.: to pick a chicken.
5. To remove extraneous matter from (the teeth, etc.) with the fingers, a pointed instrument, etc.
6. To pull apart, as rags.
7. To break up, penetrate, or indent with or as with a pointed instrument.
8. To form or make in this manner: to pick a hole.
9. To seek or point out too critically: to pick flaws.
10. To seek or bring on purposely; provoke: to pick a quarrel.
11. To remove the contents of by stealth: to pick a pocket or purse.
12. To open (a lock) by means other than the key, as by a piece of wire or metal.
13 a To pluck (the strings) of a musical instrument. b To play: to pick a banjo.
—v.i.
14. To work with a pick.
15. To eat daintily or without appetite; nibble.
16. To make careful selection: to pick and choose.
17. To pilfer: to pick and steal. See synonyms under CHOOSE.
—to pick at
1. To touch or toy with.
2. To eat without appetite. 3 U.S. Colloq. To nag at.
—to pick off
1. To remove by picking.
2. To shoot with careful and deliberate aim.
—to pick on Colloq. To single out for attention, duty, etc.; tease; annoy.
—to pick one's way (or steps) To advance by careful selection of one's course or actions.
—to pick out
1. To choose or select.
2. To distinguish (something) from its surroundings.
3. To produce the notes of (a tune) singly or slowly, as by ear.
—to pick over To examine carefully or one by one.
—to pick to pieces
1. To pull apart.
2. To destroy the arguments or claims of by critical or carping analysis.
—to pick up
1. To take up, as with the hand.
2. To take up or receive into a group, vehicle, etc.: We picked up more passengers in Hoboken.
3. To get or acquire casually or by chance.
4. To gain speed; accelerate.
5. To recover spirits, health, etc.; improve.
6. To be able to perceive or receive, as a distant radio station.
7. Colloq. To make the acquaintance of, casually or informally.
—noun
1. Right of selection; choice; hence, the best.
2. The quantity of certain crops that are picked by hand.
3. A blow, as with a spear.
4. The act of picking. See synonyms under ALTERNATIVE. [ME piken, pikken, OE pican, pician (assumed), infinitive of OE picung pricking, infl. by OF piquer pierce. Akin to PIKE¹.]
TYPES OF PICKS
a. Pickax.
b. Mandolin pick.
c. Guitar thumb pick.
d. Ice pick.
e. Quill toothpick.

(pik) noun
1. A double–headed, pointed metal tool mounted on a strong wooden handle, as a pickax: used for breaking ground, etc.
2. Any of various implements for picking, as an ice pick, toothpick, or a picklock.
3. A plectrum, as for a stringed instrument. [Appar. var. of PIKE¹]

(pik) noun
1. In weaving, the blow that drives a loom shuttle.
2. A thread: the number of picks to the inch determines the relative value of cotton cloth or muslin. [<dial. E pick, v., var. of PITCH² throw]