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pick_off
has definitions from the field of arms
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[ verb ] (arms) shoot one by one
Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)There was a sniper 's nest in a mountain cave , and it was picking_off our men with devilish accuracy . Related terms |
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[ verb ] pull or pull out sharply
Examples "pluck the flowers off the bush" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Pale yellow snapdragons that by pinching could be made to bite ; seed-pods of the balsams that snapped like fire-crackers at a touch ; red and yellow columbines whose round tipped spurs were picked_off and eaten for the honey in them ; morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper_bag ; bright flowers from the trumpet_vine that made `` gloves '' on the ends of ten waggling fingers . |
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