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rockpicking

rockpicking noun: reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A task performed periodically, not a vocation.

Noun

rockpicking (uncountable)

  1. Reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A task performed periodically, not a vocation.
  2. (ore dressing) Cleaning out the rocks during ore dressing. Done by a person, machine, or machine component.

Origin of rockpicking

From rock + pick + -ing.

Questions about rockpicking

What does rockpicking mean?
Rockpicking means reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A task performed periodically, not a vocation.
What part of speech is rockpicking?
Rockpicking is a noun.

Words near rockpicking in the dictionary

  1. rockover
  2. rockovers
  3. Rockower
  4. rockpicker
  5. rockpickers
  6. rockpicking
  7. rockpile
  8. rockpiles
  9. rockpool
  10. rockpooling
  11. rockpools

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