Lexic.us

2. Adjective. (context: by extension of people) specially selected because of their individual characteristics or talents ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand-picked

Literary usage of Hand-picked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"... batting machines are dispensed with, and the hand-picked and beat cotton is at once evenly spread upon the feed-cloth of the cards. ..."

2. A Text Book of Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1909)
"At some of the mines the ore is screened into three sizes, the fines going direct to the mill, while the two coarser sizes are hand picked. ..."

3. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"When the large lumps of mine ore are broken by hammers weighing say 10 pounds or more, the operation is called sledging, whether the product is hand picked ..."

4. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"The stock, especially if it contains a large amount of foreign material, is again hand-picked in its passage to the drying FIG. 19.—COGGSWELL MILL apparatus ..."

5. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"When the large lumps of mine ore are broken by hammers weighing say 10 pounds or more, the operation is called sledging, whether the product is hand picked ..."

6. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"When the large lumps of mine ore are broken by hammers weighing say 10 pounds or more, the operation is called sledging, whether the product is hand picked ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1870)
"... and that "hand-picked" meant the larger coals picked out by hand after they had been screened. , Several witnesses were examined upon interrogatories ..."

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