picking

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of one that picks.
• noun Something or a group of things that are or may be picked.
• noun Leftovers.
• noun A share of spoils.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A rough sorting or cleaning, as of coal, from impurities.
• noun The act of one who picks, in any sense.
• noun In stone-working, same as dabbing, 1.
• noun The final dressing or finishing of woven fabrics by going over the surface and removing burs and blemishes by hand, or retouching the color with dye by means of a camel's-hair pencil.
• noun plural That which one can pick up or off; anything left to be picked or gleaned.
• noun Pilfering; stealing; also, that which is obtained by petty pilfering; perquisites gotten by means not strictly honest.
• noun Removing picks or defects in electrotype plates with the tools of an electrotype-finisher.
• noun plural The pulverized shells of oysters, used in making walks.
• noun A hard-burned brick.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Done or made as with a pointed tool.
• adjective obsolete Nice; careful.
• adjective (Weaving) See Picker, n., 3.
• noun The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
• noun The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
• noun That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
• noun Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
• noun engraving The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
• noun (Mining) Rough sorting of ore.
• noun Overburned bricks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of pick.
• noun A gathering to pick fruit.
• noun usually pluralized Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
• noun usually pluralized Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the quantity of a crop that is harvested
• noun the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)