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First-Round Draft Pick Contest: If your pick is the same as the Packers 'choice, you'll win a football signed by the Packers' 2009 No. 1 pick (will be shipped to winner).

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  1. transitive verb To select from a group: The best swimmer was picked.
  2. transitive verb To select or cull.
  3. transitive verb To gather in; harvest: They were picking cotton.
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  • This pick is a Peterson "Hook" with a plastic handle Exercise 2: Applying Torque Go back to the "Arrow AR1" keyway lock board and find the one pin lock. —  Notes on Picking Pin Tumbler Locks
  • In light of this fact, I believe this pick was a relative coup. —  FanHouse
  • Obviously JSC's got the two most important pre-requisites for the position -- job history that includes Goldman Sachs and a follically-challenged disposition -- covered, and though our pick is a rotation that beings with the Philly Phanatic and whoever wins the World Series each year thereafter, we'll definitely throw our support to Papa (Gives the Greatest) Bear (Hugs in the Garden State). —  Dealbreaker
  • Another reason for this pick is according to the depth chart on PE. com, the LOT is backed by Winston Justice, and the ROT is backed back Jon Runyan, who is still a FA. —  Bleeding Green Nation
  • Vice President-elect Joseph Biden Jr. said the failure to notify congressional leaders about the pick was a "mistake." —  Top Stories - Google News
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English piken, to prick, from Old English *pīcian, to prick, and from Old French piquer, to pierce (from Vulgar Latin *piccāre; see pique).
  2. Middle English pik, variant of pike, sharp point; see pike5.
  3. Dialectal, from pick, to pitch, thrust, variant of pitch2.

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  1. Early modern English also pike, pyke (partly merged in pike, v.); also peck, which is partly differentiated in use (see peck); from Middle English picken, pikken, also pekken, also piken, pyken (pĭken), pick; perhaps from Anglo-Saxon pycan (found but once, in the passage “and lēt him pycan ūt his eágan.” ‘and caused [one] to pick out his eyes’ (Anglo-Saxon Chron., an. 796), where Thorpe prints pytan, and Bosworth (ed. Toller) explains the word as py¯can for *pīcan); the Anglo-Saxon form corresponding to Middle English pikken would be *piccan; cf. Middle Dutch picken, Dutch pikken, pick, = German picken, pick, peck, = Icelandic pikka, pick, prick; cf. Irish piocaim, I pick, pluck, nibble, = Gaelic pioc, pick, nip, nibble, = Welsh pigo, pick, peck, prick, choose, = Corn, piga, prick, sting; connected with the noun which appears as English pike and peak: see pike and peak. Cf. also pitch, an assibilated form of pick.
  2. In most uses from the verb; but in senses 1 and 2 prob. a mere variant of pike, n., which is in part ult. the source of the verb pick: see pick, v., pike, n.
  3. An obsolete variant of pitch.
  4. Short for pickerel.
 

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