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1. The quantity of a crop that is harvested
   "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"
   - pick
    
2. The act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

1. Select carefully from a group
   "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"
    
2. Look for and gather
   "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
   - pluck, cull
    
3. Harass with constant criticism
   "Don't always pick on your little brother"
   - blame, find fault
    
4. Provoke
   "pick a fight or a quarrel"
    
5. Remove in small bits
   "pick meat from a bone"
    
6. Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
   - clean
    
7. Pilfer or rob
   "pick pockets"
    
8. Pay for something
   "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"
   - foot
    
9. Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
   - pluck, plunk
    
10. Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
    "Pick open the ice"
    - break up
     
11. Hit lightly with a picking motion
    - peck, beak
     
12. Eat intermittently; take small bites of
    - nibble, piece

Derived forms: pickings

See also: pick off, pick over, pick up, picker, pickings

Type of: call forth, choose, collect, criticise [Brit], criticize, draw, eat, evoke, force, garner, gather, kick up, knock, manual labor [US], manual labour [Brit, Cdn], output, pay, pick apart, pick out, pierce, production, provoke, pull, pull together, remove, rob, select, strike, take, take away, withdraw, yield

Encyclopedia: Pick