Pick′ing-peg.
(Weaving.) The piece which strikes the shuttle and drives it through the shed. In one form of hand-loom, the picking-peg is drawn by a cord. In the power-loom the driver is on a vibrating staff. The picker is the invention of John Kay, about 1750, and the shuttle thus operated was called a fly-shuttle, from the rapidity of its movement as compared with the hand-shuttle.