Meaning of PICKER
| Pronunciation: | | 'pikur
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- [n] someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
- [n] a person who chooses or selects out
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| | Synonyms: | | chooser, selector |
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| | See Also: | | farm worker, farmhand, fieldhand, human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pick"er\, n. [From {Pick}.]
1. 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. ``Pickers and stealers.''
--Shak.
2. (Mach.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces
so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
3. (Weaving) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the
shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
4. (Ordnance) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
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| | Related Terms: | | agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, banjoist, Bauer, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, fiddler, folk guitarist, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, guitarist, guitar-picker, harper, harpist, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lute player, lutenist, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, planter, plowboy, plowman, psalterer, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, string musician, strummer, tea-planter, tenant farmer, thrummer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, twanger, violinist, yeoman, zitherist |
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