Picker
['pɪkə] or ['pɪkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc..
(noun.) a person who chooses or selects out.
Checked by Bernadette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
(n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
(n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
(n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
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Examples
- In 1733 he had succeeded in inventing the picker motion, picker peg, or fly. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At four o'clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was sufficiently late in the year for the orchards to be ruddy with ripe apples; and in a few places the hop-pickers were already at work. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Thaddeus