Picking
['pɪkɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.).
(noun.) the quantity of a crop that is harvested; 'he sent the first picking of berries to the market'; 'it was the biggest peach pick in years'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pick
(n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
(n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
(n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
(n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
(n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
(n.) Rough sorting of ore.
(n.) Overburned bricks.
(a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
(a.) Nice; careful.
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Examples
- A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She went with Hermione along the bank of the pond, talking of beautiful, soothing things, picking the gentle cowslips. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was picking blackhearts, and went further than I meant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What a licking I shall get when it's over, young Osborne thought, picking up his man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Picking our way so stealthily over that rocky, nettle-grown eminence, made me feel a good deal as if I were on my way somewhere to steal something. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Lord Kinnaird heard nothing as applied to himself, never having dreamed of such a thing as insulting or picking a quarrel with young Lambton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Picking it up to examine it, Clayton gave a cry of astonishment, for the ring bore the crest of the house of Greystoke. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Nor of wolves either, Anselmo said, picking up the other pack. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She was sullenly picking and pulling at the twigs of the hedge as she passed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We also have our diplomatic secrets, said he and, picking up his hat, he turned to the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I expect you to help me, I said, in picking up the fragments of evidence which Sergeant Cuff has left behind him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- One leg Belgian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other people in it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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