picking
/ˈpɪkɪŋ/verb
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To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
Example: Don't pick at that scab.
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
Example: It's time to pick the tomatoes.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
Example: She picked flowers in the meadow.
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
Example: to pick rags
noun
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A gathering to pick fruit.
Example: We went to a strawberry picking last June.
(usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
(usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
Something picked or pulled out.
Example: The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.