1839 25th Congr. 3 Sess. App. 47/2 All the emigrants went on to the new lands, where they could get first choices at $1.25 per acre, because they could not give that sum for picked-over lands in the old counties.
1997 I. Sinclair (1998) 20 He shovelled the failed remnants, the picked-over dross, into the corporation's dustcarts.