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pickery

/ˈpɪkəɹi/

pickery noun: a place where cotton is picked.

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

Forms of pickery

pluralpickeries

Origin of pickery

From pick (“to steal”), or perhaps from pickeer.

Words that rhyme with pickery

Questions about pickery

What does pickery mean?
Pickery means a place where cotton is picked.
What part of speech is pickery?
Pickery is a noun.
How do you pronounce pickery?
Pickery is pronounced /ˈpɪkəɹi/.
What is the plural of pickery?
The plural of pickery is pickeries.

Words near pickery in the dictionary

  1. pickeroon
  2. pickeroons
  3. pickers
  4. pickers-up
  5. Pickersgill
  6. pickery
  7. pickest
  8. picket
  9. picket boat
  10. picket boats
  11. picket bullet

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