cherry picker
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cherry picker
noun
1.
a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
2.
a vehicle equipped with such a boom.
Also, cher·ry-pick·er, cher·ry·pick·er.
Origin:
1860–65
1860–65
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| cherry picker | |
| —n | |
| a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground | |
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Cherry picker
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
Before the driver could slow the truck or safely move to the next lane, the semi-truck struck the cherry picker basket.
Try to get a cherry picker donated for installation and take down if possible.
In a cherry picker, for example, the boom can be controlled from the cab of the truck and from the basket at the end of the boom.
Manual removal is tedious and labor intensive and may be dangerous or impossible without the use of a cherry picker.
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