Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Picking \Pick"ing\, a.
   1. Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

   2. Nice; careful. [Obs.]

            was too warm on picking work to dwell. --Dryden.

   {Picking peg}. (Weaving) See {Picker}, n., 3.