picking
/ˈpɪkɪŋ/ noun A2- A gathering to pick fruit. · We went to a strawberry picking last June.
- Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner. · easy pickings, rich pickings
- Something picked or pulled out. · The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
Plural pickings
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After picking out the silver shoe, which was all that was left of the old woman, she cleaned and dried it with a cloth, and put it on her foot again.
However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground.
Avonlea scholars often spent noon hour picking gum in Mr.
The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
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