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Definition of Hand-pick
1. Verb. Pick personally and very carefully. "The director hand-picked his new team"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand-pick
Literary usage of Hand-pick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Training Industrial Workers by Roy Willmarth Kelly (1920)
"With left hand pick up lining and turn over from right to left; with right hand fold
... With right hand, pick up insole and place on bottom of last. ..."
2. Training Industrial Workers by Roy Willmarth Kelly (1920)
"With left hand pick up lining and turn over from right to left; with right hand fold
... With right hand, pick up insole and place on bottom of last. ..."
3. Science of Home and Community: A Text-book in General Science by Gilbert Haven Trafton (1919)
"TREATMENT Hand pick or spray with arsenate of lead. Hand pick or apply arsenate
of lead. ... Hand pick; spray with kerosene emulsion or nicotine sulfate. ..."
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