What is "unpicked"

Usage examples of "unpicked".

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.