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Picking

noun

1.

The quantity of a crop that is harvested. Synonym: pick. "It was the biggest peach pick in years"

2.

The act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.).

Pick

verb

(past & past part. picked; pres. part. picking)

1.

Select carefully from a group. "He picked his way carefully"

2.

Look for and gather. Synonyms: cull, pluck. "Pick flowers"

3.

Harass with constant criticism. Synonyms: blame, find fault.

4.

Provoke.

5.

Remove in small bits.

6.

Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits. Synonym: clean.

7.

Pilfer or rob.

8.

Pay for something. Synonym: foot. "Pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" , "Foot the bill"

9.

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion. Synonyms: pluck, plunk.

10.

Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example. Synonym: break up.

11.

Hit lightly with a picking motion. Synonyms: beak, peck.

12.

Eat intermittently; take small bites of. Synonyms: nibble, piece. "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

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"Picking" Quotes from Famous Books

... me for a long time. Peggy only appeared after dinner, looking pale and lovely enough in her loose wrapper to make Peter act excessively like——a young married man, and to make me wish myself at an invisible distance, doing something beside picking up Kate's things, that she always dropped on the floor whenever she sewed. Peggy saw I was bored, so she requested me one day to walk down to the poultry-yard and ask about her chickens; she pretended a great deal of anxiety, and Peter had sprained ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various

... in her own mind (as well as she could, for the day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran ...

— Alice in Wonderland • Lewis Carroll

... luck of picking up a mermaid," she declared. "I may find Father Neptune, or the Sirens, if I go a little farther; or perhaps I might drag back the sea serpent, as a neat little specimen for the school museum. If the trippers are often going to provide us with such ...

— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil

... me offer you some fish;" and with those words he drew his sword, and, picking up a cake of baked fish upon the point of it, thrust it towards the wardsman's mouth. Any ordinary man would have been afraid to accept the morsel so roughly offered; but Chobei simply opened his mouth, and taking the cake off the sword's point ate ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

... 'How wonderfully you are picking up,' she said, after watching him pull for a few minutes. 'Do you know, Wilf, your tendency is to stoutness; in a few years you will be portly, if you live too sedentary ...

— A Life's Morning • George Gissing

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