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picking |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pick \Pick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked}; p. pr & vb n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken to prick, peck; akin to Icel. pikka, Sw picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch} to throw.] 1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.] As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak. 2. To peck at as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc 4. To open (a lock) as by a wire. 5. To pull apart or away especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc 6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak. He picks clean teeth, and busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet --Cowper. 7. To choose to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as to pick one's company; to pick one's way -- often with out ``One man picked out of ten thousand.'' --Shak. 8. To take up esp., to gather from here and there to collect; to bring together; as to pick rags; -- often with up as to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. 9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. {To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}. {To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To pick off}. a To pluck; to remove by picking. b To shoot or bring down one by one as sharpshooters pick off the enemy. {To pick out}. a To mark out to variegate; as to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. b To select from a number or quantity. {To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. {To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. {To pick up}. a To take up as with the fingers. b To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there as to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Picking \Pick"ing\, n. 1. The act of digging or breaking up as with a pick 2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering. 3. That which is or may be picked or gleaned. 4. Pilfering; also that which is pilfered. 5. pl The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. [Eng.] --Simmonds. 6. (Mining) Rough sorting of ore. 7. Overburned bricks. --Simmonds. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Picking \Pick"ing\, a. 1. Done or made as with a pointed tool; as a picking sound. 2. Nice; careful. [Obs.] was too warm on picking work to dwell. --Dryden. {Picking peg}. (Weaving) See {Picker}, n., 3. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: picking n 1: the act of someone who picks up or takes something "the pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking" [syn: {taking}] 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" [syn: {pick}] 3: the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
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