1. The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
2. Fineness; spruceness; smartness. [Obs.] Too much pickedness is not manly. B. Jonson.
PICKEER Pick*eer", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pickeered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pickeering.] Etym: [F. picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. pecorea robbery committed by straggling soldiers.]
Defn: To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
PICKEERER
Pick*eer"er, n.
Defn: One who pickeers. [Obs.]
PICKER
Pick"er, n. Etym: [From Pick.]
1. One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, — as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. "Pickers and stealers." Shak.
2. (Mach.)
Defn: A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.