Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a
      buckler. [Obs.] ``Take down my buckler . . . and grind the
      pick on 't.'' --Beau. & Fl.

   4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.

            France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
                                                  --Ld. Lytton.

   5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as,
      the pick of the flock.

   6. (Print.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow
      of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot
      on a printed sheet. --MacKellar.

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

   8. (Weawing) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate
      of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per
      minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a
      weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.

   {Pick dressing} (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a
      pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or
      depressions.

   {Pick hammer}, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt,
      used by miners.