pick to pieces

Variant of pick

pick definition

pick (pik)

transitive verb

Weaving to throw (a shuttle)

Etymology: ME pykken, var. of picchen, to pitch

noun

  1. one passage or throw of the shuttle of a loom
  2. one of the weft threads, or filling yarns

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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