To work with a pick or other digging implement; --also refl.; dig (sth.); break up (land, a field); dig up (weeds); piken awei, dig up (weeds); undermine (a foundation); piken oute, dig out (stones……
(a) To plunder, pillage; preien in, seize upon (goods, land), make spoil of; (b) to plunder (a country, an area); prey upon (sb.); of diseases: ravage (the heads of people); preien awei, carry off……
(a) Of a bird: to peck; strike at (sb. or sth.) with the beak; also fig.; pekken out, gouge out or pierce (an eye) with the beak; pekken up, take up (food) with the beak; (b) of a person: to pick……
(a) To pierce, stab; stab lightly, prick; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.), stab, puncture; wound (sb.); stab (sb. or sth.) lightly, prick; of a bird: peck at (itself); (c) used fig. or in fig. context……
(a) To thrust (sth.), drive (a stake, etc.); picchen in (o, to, into), stick, thrust, or drive (sth.) into (sth.); surround (a wood) with a palisade [quot.: a1450, 1st]; (b) to pierce (sb. or sth.)……
