2. Verb. To select carefully and with individual attention. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handpick
1. to choose carefully [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handpick
Literary usage of Handpick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1860)
"To handpick them is impossible. The entire population would be insufficient for
such a purpose. Our own opinion is, that very extensive and severe pruning ..."
2. Preventing Gang & Drug Related Witness Intimidation by Peter Finn (1996)
"The importance of the bailiff was underscored by one judge who is able to interview
and handpick bailiffs for his court because he is on good terms with the ..."
3. Twenty Years in the Philippines by Paul Proust de La Gironière (1854)
"... and, every fifteen days to handpick, or even better, to root out with the
mattock, all the weeds which cannot be touched by the plough. ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1905)
"Ore as low in grade as ,5 per cent. is saleable, but it is more economical to
handpick or otherwise dress the ore up to at least 25 per cent. before ..."
5. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"handpick- ing and other mechanical methods of destroying the beetles have often
been resorted to, but are too expensive and laborious for use in vineyards ..."
6. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1915)
"... full of empty tin boxes (ordinary pipe tobacco boxes of the market) and dig
around in various places with a small handpick ; or else follow a plowman. ..."
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