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单词 to pick away
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to pick away
to pick away
transitive. To remove or obliterate with a pick, or by picking (in various senses).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)] > clear by picking
picka1393
to pick awayc1400
pickle1605
repick1779
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1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe sig. C2 [She] suffereth some friendly bird without daunger to creepe into her mouth, and with her bill to picke away the troubling reedes.
1618 R. Brathwait Descr. Death viii Fleshie He was, but it is pickt away.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ iv. 41 It must be finely harrowed, and all Clots, Stones, Turfs, &c. picked away.
1736 tr. T. de Saint-Hyacinthe Hist. Prince Titi i. 28 Titi picked away the Remainder of the Egg-shell, and then saw a Diamond.
1776 W. Boutcher Treat. Forest-trees (new ed.) xvii. 118 You must loosen the surface gently with your fingers, picking away the foggy or mouldy parts.
1843 N. Amer. Rev. July 99 The Indians picked away the mortar with their machetes, and enlarged the hole.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 508 When the membrane had been picked away the optic thalami could be made out.
1912 Z. Grey Riders of Purple Sage v. 58 Opening her blouse he untied the scarf, and carefully picked away the sage-leaves from the wound in her shoulder.
1981 R. Westall Scarecrows v. 42 Jane..was only ever cruel for a bit; pinching, or trying to pick away a bit of skin with her fingernail over and over again, or twisting ears.
β. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. 118 (MED) Somme..pykede aweye þe [v.r. a-felde pikede] wedes.a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 103 Þe fendis may..pike awey þe seed.a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 95 (MED) This conynger hath eek another gise, Vndir the wal to crepe pryvely, And sette vp postis heer & ther by sise, And pike away the fundament wightly.c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 427 (MED) Take to ij gangge of calvefete, halfe a gange of roder fete, and seth hem or scalde hem and pyke away the hayr.
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