Synonyms:
picking
Meaning: the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
Synonyms:
picking, pick
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
Then, picking up the pencil, they wrote:
Well, rifles could be had for the picking.
"Her and me was a picking 'em afore sunrise."
I was watching two children picking them up to-day."
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets?
In a moment they would be picking their way into the wreck.
I cannot cease to thank Him for picking me up out of the miry clay.
And Joe, picking up one more block, desperately tossed it out of the car.
"Come on, then," said the boy, picking up his basket; "let us start at once.
The angler chooses to let it go in the hope of picking it up on the other side.