pick

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

A choice; ability to choose.

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

A screen.

An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

An interception.

A good defensive play by an infielder.

A pickoff.

A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.