Picking
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
(2) 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"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- 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.
- 1899, F. Marion Crawford, Via Crucis, ch. 9:
- Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
- 1899, F. Marion Crawford, Via Crucis, ch. 9:
- Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- 1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, ch. 11:
- He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.
- 1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, ch. 11: