To seize upon (booty); to catch, apprehend, get into one's power (a person); to capture (a city), to seize (lands, possessions). Obs. exc. arch.

intransitive. To pull or draw; (in later use) to draw for a card. Also: to make a snatch, to steal. Cf. pick, v.1 11b. Obsolete.

transitive. To seize, lay hold of.