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pickeries

pickeries is the plural of pickery.

Meaning of pickery

Noun

pickery (plural pickeries)

  1. A place where cotton is picked.
  2. (Scotland, archaic) petty theft
    • 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 […]1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC

Questions about pickeries

What is pickeries the plural of?
Pickeries is the plural of pickery.

Words near pickeries in the dictionary

  1. pickerel weed
  2. pickerel weeds
  3. pickerels
  4. pickerelweed
  5. pickerelweeds
  6. pickeries
  7. Pickerill
  8. Pickerills
  9. Pickering
  10. Pickering series
  11. pickeringite

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