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PICK
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English
English : altered form of Pickering.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English pigh(t)el ‘small field’, ‘paddock’ of obscure origin.Altered spelling of German Pickel.
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English (chiefly eastern and southern)
English (chiefly eastern and southern) : from an agent derivative of Middle English pich ‘pitch’, hence an occupational name for a caulker, one who sealed the seams of ships or barrels with pitch.English : variant of Pickard 2.Possibly from German Pitscher, from the short form of a personal name formed with Old High German bītan ‘to endure’, or bittan ‘to wish or ask for’.
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English (also established in Ireland), French, and Dutch
English (also established in Ireland), French, and Dutch : nickname for an inveterate gambler or a brave or foolhardy man prepared to run risks, from Middle English, Old French hasard, Middle Dutch hasaert (derived from Old French) ‘game of chance’, later used metaphorically of other uncertain enterprises. The word derives from Arabic az-zahr, from az, assimilated form of the definite article al + zahr ‘die’. It appears to have been picked up in the Holy Land and brought back to Europe by Provençal crusaders.
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English
English : habitational name, perhaps from Pickforde (‘pig ford’) in Ticehurst, Sussex. The surname is now most common in the Manchester region, but it does not seem to have reached there before the 17th century.
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English (mainly East Midlands), Dutch, and German
English (mainly East Midlands), Dutch, and German : from Middle English pi(c)k, Middle Dutch picke, Middle High German bicke ‘pick’, ‘pickaxe’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made pickaxes or used them as an agricultural or excavating tool.North German : metonymic occupational name for a pitch-burner, from Low German pick ‘pitch’.English : possibly from Middle English pike ‘pike’ (the fish), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish, or as a descriptive nickname for someone thought to resemple a pike in some way.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point, from Old English pīc ‘point’, ‘hill’, which was a relatively common place name element.English : metonymic occupational name for a pike fisherman or nickname for a predatory individual, from Middle English pike.English : metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool for breaking up the earth, Middle English pike. Compare Pick.English : metonymic occupational name for a medieval foot soldier who used a pike, a weapon consisting of a sharp pointed metal end on a long pole, Middle English pic (Old French pique, of Germanic origin).English : nickname for a tall, thin person, from a transferred sense of one of the above.English : from a Germanic personal name (derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’), found in Middle English and Old French as Pic.English : nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Pye and Speight.Irish : in the south, of English origin; in Ulster a variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).Americanized spelling of German Peik, from Middle Low German pēk ‘sharp, pointed tool or weapon’. Compare 4 above or from a Germanic personal name (see 6 above).John Pike brought his family to Boston from England in 1635 and settled in Newbury, MA. His son Robert was a leading citizen and a vigorous defender of civil and religious liberty in colonial MA.
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English
English : altered form of Pickering.
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : variant of Pickle.
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English
English : variant spelling of Pickerill.
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English (mainly West Midlands)
English (mainly West Midlands) : from a diminutive of Pick.English and Scottish : from the Anglo-Norman French personal name Picon, Pi(c)quin, a pet form of Pic.German : probably a variant of Pick 1 or 2.
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English
English : variant spelling of Pickerill.
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English (mainly Yorkshire) and German
English (mainly Yorkshire) and German : variant of Picard.English : some early examples, such as Paganus filius Pichardi (Hampshire, 1160), seem to point to derivation from a Germanic personal name, probably composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point’, ‘pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Dutch : regional name for someone from Picardy in northern France.German : variant of Picker 4.
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English
English : variant of Picker.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ + man ‘man’.
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English
English : variant of Pickerell.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who used a pick, from Middle English pi(c)k ‘pick’ (see Pick) + the agent suffix -er.English : occupational name for someone who caught or sold pike, from Middle English pike ‘pike’ + the agent suffix -er.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a pointed hill (see Pike 1), the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.German : occupational name for someone who used a pick or pickaxe, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bicken ‘to prick or stab’.Dutch : occupational name for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower, from Middle Dutch picker, pecker.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ with the noun suffix -er.
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English
English : habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall suggests that this was earlier PÄ«cÅringas ‘people on the ridge of the pointed hill’ (see Orr 3 and Pike 1).John Pickering of Newgate, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, came to MA in the early 1630s. He married Elizabeth Alderman in Ipswich, MA, in 1636 and moved a year later to Salem.
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English
English : variant spelling of Pickerill.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English flo(u)r ‘flower’, ‘blossom’ (Old French flur, from Latin flos, genitive floris). This was a conventional term of endearment in medieval romantic poetry, and as early as the 13th century it is also regularly found as a female personal name.English : metonymic occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, or perhaps a nickname for a pasty-faced person, from Middle English flo(u)r ‘flour’. This is in origin the same word as in 1, with the transferred sense ‘flower, pick of the meal’. Although the two words are now felt to be accidental homophones, they were not distinguished in spelling before the 18th century.English : occupational name for an arrowsmith, from an agent derivative of Middle English flŠ‘arrow’ (Old English flÄ).Welsh : Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Llywarch, of unexplained origin.Translation of French Lafleur.
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English : variant of Pickerell.
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n.
One who makes pickles.
pl.
of Pickpenny
n.
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pickle
n.
One who picks locks; a thief.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Picket
n.
That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
n.
The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
a.
Preserved in a pickle.
v. t.
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
n.
A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
adv.
Pickaback.
v. t.
To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
v. t.
A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
v. t.
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
v. t.
To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
imp. & p. p.
of Pickle
a.
Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
n.
An instrument for picking locks.
imp. & p. p.
of Picket