pickery
English
editEtymology
editFrom pick (“to steal”), or perhaps from pickeer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpickery (plural pickeries)
- A place where cotton is picked.
- (Scotland, archaic) petty theft
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- 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 […]
References
edit- “pickery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.