Index of English words, starting with "pi"

(1) - Picker (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
(2) - Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
(3) - Picker (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
(4) - Picker (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.

(1) - Pickerel (n.) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.
(2) - Pickerel (n.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
(3) - Pickerel (n.) A young or small pike.

(1) - Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
(2) - Picket (v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(3) - Picket (v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
(4) - Picket (v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
(5) - Picket (v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
(6) - Picket (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
(7) - Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
(8) - Picket (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
(9) - Picket (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.
(10) - Picket (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
(11) - Picket (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.

(1) - Picking (a.) Nice; careful.
(2) - Picking (a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
(3) - Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.
(4) - Picking (n.) Rough sorting of ore.
(5) - Picking (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
(6) - Picking (n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
(7) - Picking (n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
(8) - Picking (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
(9) - Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
(10) - Picking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pick