Definition of "pickeering" []

• Present participle of pickeer. (verb)

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• "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."
• "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."