picking

fe’l verb

1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. Don't pick at that scab.
2. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. It's time to pick the tomatoes.
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. She picked flowers in the meadow.
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together. to pick rags

ot noun

1. A gathering to pick fruit. We went to a strawberry picking last June.
2. Something picked or pulled out. The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.
3. (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
4. (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.