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Webster 1913 Edition

Pickery

Pick′er-y

,

Noun.

[From

to steal; or perhaps from

.]

Petty theft.

[Scot.]

Holinshed.

Definition 2024

pickery

pickery

English

Noun

pickery ‎(plural pickeries)

A place where cotton is picked.
(Scotland) petty theft
- Holinshed
  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 […]