pickery

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/ˈpɪkəɹi/

noun

A place where cotton is picked.

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Meanings

nounpickery (plural pickeries)

plural pickeries

  1. A place where cotton is picked.
  2. Scotlandarchaicpetty 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

Origin

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with pickery

hickorychicoryliquorystickery
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Cite this entry
APA

pickery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickery

MLA

“pickery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickery. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pickery,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickery.

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