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To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
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A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used for digging ino the ground by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
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A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
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the tool of the hewer for excavating his coal.
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Most glassworkers have a sharp pointed pick, often bent at a right angle at one end and straight at the other. It may be a commercial scribe or be hand made. It is used to open tiny holes nothing else will get in and to draw threading in the feathering technique.
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a thin sharp implement used for picking; "he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks"
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a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"
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a short-handled tool with a banana shaped heads
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a tool used for manual labour which consists of a hard spike attached perpendicular to a handle
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A sharp tool used for all kinds of applications including poking, prying, and cleaning.
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Miners tool for loosening coal and earth
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A tool with a 36-inch handle and a head that has a point at one end and a chisel-like edge at the other. Used to loosen soil or rock.
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n. 1. a tool or instrument, other than the specifically designed key, made for the purpose of manipulating tumblers in a lock or cylinder into the locked or unlocked position through the keyway, without obvious damage. 2. v. to manipulate tumblers in a keyed lock mechanism through the keyway, without obvious damage, by means other than the specifically designed key
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