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Noun: picking piking- The quantity of a crop that is harvested
"he sent the first picking of berries to the market"
- pick - The act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
Verb: pick pik- Select carefully from a group
"She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully" - Look for and gather
"pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- pluck, cull - Harass with constant criticism
"Don't always pick on your little brother"
- blame, find fault - Provoke
"pick a fight or a quarrel" - Remove in small bits
"pick meat from a bone" - Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- clean - Pilfer or rob
"pick pockets" - Pay for something
"pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"
- foot - Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- pluck, plunk - Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
"Pick open the ice"
- break up - Hit lightly with a picking motion
- peck, beak - Eat intermittently; take small bites of
- nibble, piece
Derived forms: pickings See also: pick off, pick over, pick up, picker, pickings Type of: call forth, choose, collect, criticise [Brit], criticize, draw, eat, evoke, force, garner, gather, kick up, knock, manual labor [US], manual labour [Brit, Cdn], output, pay, pick apart, pick out, pierce, production, provoke, pull, pull together, remove, rob, select, strike, take, take away, withdraw, yield Encyclopedia: Pick Picking |