pickery
English
Etymology
From pick (“to steal”), or perhaps from pickeer.
Noun
pickery (plural pickeries)
- A place where cotton is picked.
- (Scotland) petty theft
- Holinshed
- If any man be taken with theft or pickery, and thereof convicted, he shall have his head polled, and hot pitch poured upon his pate […]
- Holinshed
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pickery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)