PICKINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pickings mean? 

• PICKINGS (noun)
  The noun PICKINGS has 1 sense:

1. the act of someone who picks up or takes something

  Familiarity information: PICKINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of someone who picks up or takes something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pickings; taking

Context example:

clothing could be had for the taking

Hypernyms ("pickings" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Derivation:

pick (pilfer or rob)

 Context examples 

Pickings, he concluded; Cooky’s pickings.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In such a case, he said, not only were there very pretty pickings, in the way of arguments at every stage of the proceedings, and mountains upon mountains of evidence on interrogatory and counter-interrogatory (to say nothing of an appeal lying, first to the Delegates, and then to the Lords), but, the costs being pretty sure to come out of the estate at last, both sides went at it in a lively and spirited manner, and expense was no consideration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I suppose he had considered that these were all the governess would require for her private perusal; and, indeed, they contented me amply for the present; compared with the scanty pickings I had now and then been able to glean at Lowood, they seemed to offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)