PICKERING

Pick "er *ing, n. Etym: [Probably a corruption of Pickerel. ] (Zoöl.)

Pickering, John

Pick er ing, John |ˈpik (ə )riNG ˈpɪkərɪŋ | (1777 –1846 ), US linguist and lexicographer; son of Timothy Pickering. He wrote the first dictionary of Americanisms 1816 and studied the languages of North American Indians.

Pickering, Timothy

Pick er ing, Timothy |ˈpik (ə )riNG ˈpɪkərɪŋ | (1745 –1829 ), US government official. He was the US secretary of war 1795 and secretary of state 1795 –1800, as well as a member of the US Senate 1803 –11 and US House of Representatives 1813 –17.

Pickering, William Hayward

Pick er ing, William Hayward |ˈpɪk (ə )rɪŋ ˈpik (ə )riNG | (1910 –2004 ), US engineer, born in Australia; director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ) at the California Institute of Technology 1954 –76. During his directorate the JPL launched the US ’s first satellite, Explorer I, in 1958.

Pickering, John

Pick er ing, John |ˈpik (ə )riNG ˈpɪkərɪŋ | (1777 –1846 ), US linguist and lexicographer; son of Timothy Pickering. He wrote the first dictionary of Americanisms 1816 and studied the languages of North American Indians.

Pickering, Timothy

Pick er ing, Timothy |ˈpik (ə )riNG ˈpɪkərɪŋ | (1745 –1829 ), US government official. He was the US secretary of war 1795 and secretary of state 1795 –1800, as well as a member of the US Senate 1803 –11 and US House of Representatives 1813 –17.

Pickering, William Hayward

Pickering, William Hayward |ˈpɪkərɪŋ | (1910 –2004 ), New Zealand-born American engineer, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology 1954 –76. During his directorate the laboratory launched America's first satellite, Explorer I (1958 ), and several unmanned probes to the moon and planets.