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  • verb Present participle of pickeer.

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Examples

  • But still, by the mind's eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate's supper-room to a thieves 'ken, and pickeering among the closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • But still, by the mind's eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate's supper-room to a thieves 'ken, and pickeering among the closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • But still, by the mind’s eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate’s supper-room to a thieves’ ken, and pickeering among the closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

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