Words That Start With: PIC

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

• A play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

• a warrant to take someone into custody

• anything with restorative powers

• a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

• the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

• mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

• an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

• the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

• the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

• the quantity of a crop that is harvested

• the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

• a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

• a warrant to take someone into custody

• anything with restorative powers

• a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

• the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

• mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

• an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

• the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

• the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

• exacting especially about details

• (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid