Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See pickeer, pickeerer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare See
pickeer .
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- verb Alternative form of
pickeer .
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Examples
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In short, the fairest occasions in the world given to quarrel; but she wisely distinguisheth between the body of Dissenters, whom she will suppose to act, as they do, with no ill intent, and these small skirmishers, picked and sent out to piqueer, and to begin
Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889
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