These are the meanings of the letters ICEPICK when you unscramble them.
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Epic (a.)
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
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Epic (n.)
An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
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Peck (n.)
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
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Peck (n.)
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
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Peck (v.)
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
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Peck (v.)
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
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Peck (v.)
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
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Peck (v.)
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
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Peck (v. i.)
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
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Peck (v. i.)
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
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Peck (n.)
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
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Pice (n.)
A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
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Pick (v.)
To throw; to pitch.
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Pick (v.)
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
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Pick (v.)
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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Pick (v.)
To open (a lock) as by a wire.
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Pick (v.)
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
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Pick (v.)
To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
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Pick (v.)
To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.
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Pick (v.)
To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
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Pick (v.)
To trim.
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Pick (v. i.)
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
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Pick (v. i.)
To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
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Pick (v. i.)
To steal; to pilfer.
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Pick (n.)
A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
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Pick (n.)
A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
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Pick (n.)
A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
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Pick (n.)
Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
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Pick (n.)
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
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Pick (n.)
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.
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Pick (n.)
That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
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Pick (n.)
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.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A hayfork.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A pick.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A pointed or peaked hill.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A large haycock.
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Pike (n. & v.)
A turnpike; a toll bar.
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Pike (sing. & pl.)
A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.