Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pick

To throw; same as pitch. The instrument that throws the shuttle is called the picker. (Anglo-Saxon, pyc-an, to throw, pull, or pick.)

“Ill pick you o'er the pales.”

Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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