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picker
[ pik-er ]
noun
- a person who gathers fruit, flowers, etc.
- Slang. a player of a stringed instrument, especially a banjo.
- Metallurgy. a pointed rod for removing a pattern from a half mold.
ˈpicker
/ ˈpɪkə /
noun
- a person or thing that picks, esp that gathers fruit, crops, etc
- (in weaving) a person or the part of the loom that casts the shuttle
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Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
When cosmetics magnate Stanley Picker died in 1982, he left behind a gorgeous house and notable art collection.
Then adjust the reach of your picker and reach for your fruit.
And she liked working with Picker before, both on his first opera Emmeline, as well as An American Tragedy.
Maybe the cop on the Venice train mistook me for a fruit-picker.
It was a temptation, too, to flick a currant into the face of another picker and see him jump.
He lived on alms and slept in one of those rag-picker's huts near the barrier de Ternes.
Another bird of our coast is the Oyster-catcher, sometimes called the "Sea-pie" or Mussel-picker.
Some days when lucky strikes are frequent the gum picker can clear from $5 to $10.
The shrewd picker, the experienced man, runs his practiced eye along every trunk.
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