What is "unpick"

Usage examples of "unpick".

Junko brought Kaede old garments from Lady Noguchi, carefully unpicking them and resewing them with the faded parts turned inwards.

There were women who spent sixteen or eighteen hours a day sitting in sweatshops unpicking and resewing old clothes.

But he was doing so with such care that when he was finally done, only a slightly whiter area and a hole or two showed where it had been, and the threads he had unpicked were still all in lengths that could be used.

Bazie, who was mending a stocking as dexterously as he had unpicked the design on the napkins.

The sleeves did not reach my elbow and were trimmed with minute flowers she had unpicked from the original belt.

She lived at home with Auntie Sylvia and listened to what she calls the wireless and read books from the public library and made her clothes and unpicked old sweaters and used the wool to knit up new ones.

The exterior walls were nearly entire, constructed of gray, flat, unpicked stones, the aged strength of which promised long to resist the elements, if no other violence should precipitate their fall.

Horrible little cross stitches on a piece of cotton and if one stitch was too large or too small it had to be unpicked and put right.

She had promised herself that she would pick that same rhubarb and make an excellent pie, but in spite of this the rhubarb remained unpicked, perhaps be cause the thought of going to all that trouble just for herself seemed pointless, or perhaps because her ap petite had decreased so sharply, so much so that the unexpected sight of herself in an old-fashioned pier- glass in one of the spare bedrooms shocked her into realising how much weight she must have lost.

Chinese were first in the tea fields, and that undoubtedly the plant was a native of both China and Japan when it was slumbering on the slopes of India, unpicked, unsteeped, undrunk, unhonored, and unsung.

Devised by the Englishman Joseph Bramah in the 1760s, it had gone unpicked, inviolate, for over half a century until it was finally cracked.

Joe said, laughing at the way his younger brother was unpicking all the ingredients.

It took Vladimir ten minutes, with the help of a precious razor blade, to unpick the stitches.

Affinity was supremely useful in coordinating their movements, like unpicking a three dimensional puzzle.

Then I imagined Lewis, boots tied round his neck, for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan, skinning her jeans off, not me, and he turned into Rodney Ritchie, at home with his parents, unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife, and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall.