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Definition of Pickings
1. Noun. The act of someone who picks up or takes something. "Clothing could be had for the taking"
Definition of Pickings
1. Noun. (plural of picking) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pickings
1. picking [n] - See also: picking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickings
Literary usage of Pickings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contract of Marine Insurance by Charles McArthur (1885)
"ADJUSTMENT OF THE LOSS ON COTTON pickings. There are some usages of trade,
applicable to the adjustment of particular average on goods, which have to be ..."
2. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"The fruit ripens in succession so that several pickings are required in order to
secure the crop in prime marketable condition. It is in season during late ..."
3. The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State by John Wade (1832)
"The • The palace jobs have yielded splendid pickings to the upholsterers. Messrs.
Morel and Seddon's estimates for furnishing Windsor Castle amounted to ..."
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