picking

About 7.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of pick
2. noun A gathering to pick fruit.

   We went to a strawberry picking last June.

3. noun Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
4. noun Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.

   easy pickings, rich pickings

5. noun Something picked or pulled out.

   The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.

6. noun The act of making a choice; selection.
7. noun The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
8. noun The removal of defects from electrotype plates.

Similar words

taking berry crop harvesting harvest samphire nit oakum scratching plucking

Often followed by

up out the a and at it his on