Meaning
To pluck the feathers from a killed chicken — usually after scalding it in hot water to loosen them — as part of preparing a yard fowl for the pot. In country life, to 'pick fowl' is a familiar chore, the messy, painstaking step between killing the bird and cooking it. The phrase evokes the whole tradition of raising and killing your own chicken rather than buying it packaged.
Examples
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Wi haffi pick di fowl before wi cook it.
We have to pluck the chicken before we cook it.
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Scald it first, den di feather pick easy.
Scald it first, then the feathers pluck easily.
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Granny sen mi go pick di fowl.
Granny sent me to pluck the chicken.
Origin
From 'pick' (in the sense of pluck) + 'fowl'; to pluck a chicken. See [[yard-fowl]], [[country]].
How it’s used
To pluck feathers from a killed chicken. See [[yard-fowl]], [[country]].