PickTo throw; same as pitch. The instrument that throws the shuttle is called the picker. (Anglo-Saxon, pyc-an, to throw, pull, or pick.) “Ill pick you o'er the pales.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Pick from Infoplease:
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