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picking

picking

2.5
The amount of fruit or crops taken in one harvest
  • noun
  • /ˈpɪkɪŋ/
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  • This is helpful for gardeners with small plantings, as it may take two or three pickings to get enough peas to serve the family.

Examples

  • At the festival, families enjoyed apple pickings that were gathered fresh from the orchard.

  • - The Apple Picking Festival is a go... but Great Adventure only wants three nights instead of 10.

    Music and Lyrics (2007)

  • This is the first picking off these plants, the first picking we've already been picking, by the way.

  • I KNOW YOU CAN IDENTIFY WITH PICKING COTTON.

    Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

  • Top monkeys have a fine existence, with all the mates and first pickings of food that they want, while the omegas have a lean, miserable time of it out on the periphery.

    Academic text (2009)

  • After several days in the field, the farmers celebrated their first picking of ripe tomatoes.

  • This year's grape pickings were abundant, yielding enough for both wine and fresh eating.

Synonyms

crop
vspicking
460 1.1

Plants grown to be harvested for food or other use

focuses on the amount gathered at one time rather than the seasonal total
harvest
vspicking
166 1.0

The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields

refers to the amount gathered at one time rather than the process
pick
vspicking
27 2.1

The amount of crop gathered at harvest

is the same meaning but appears as the action noun form

Compounds

cotton-picking attitude
  • Offensive
9.9

A rude, annoying way of behaving that shows little respect

How Much

bounty
45 4.1
harvest
166 1.0
picking
2.5
batch
197 3.2
handful
81 1.0

Surface Forms

picking singular
pickings plural

Morphology

picking = pick (transparent) = pick + ing

Regular nominalization from the verb 'pick' yielding a result/quantity sense (the amount gathered), a common and predictable extension.

Etymology

Picking also came to mean the amount taken in one harvest because it was the result of a single 'plucking' from the plants. That's why a 'first picking' means the first batch of fruit gathered at one time.