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pick verb To play or pluck (a guitar, banjo, etc.).

1861 Huntley CW Letters (Dec 3) thare is a Littell of a most every thing Carried on hear But more of Evil than any thing Eles We have Fidling Dancing Picking the Banjo Cursing plenty preaching praying Singing and other things that is as mean as any. 1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) Ike’s girl Ethel picks and sings very well. 1959 Hall Coll (Hartford TN) Jim was settin’ in the door pickin’ a old banjer, with a jug of liquor settin’ between his legs. He didn’t stop pickin’ [when the doctor came]. 1989 Matewan OHP-7 The younger sides of them could pick banjos and fiddles.