PICKER Definition & Meaning

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picker

[pik-er]

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noun

someone or something that picks. pick.
a special tool or machine for picking pick fruit, vegetables, etc., from their plants.
a machine that picks pick fibers.
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.

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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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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of picker¹

First recorded in 1520–30; pick ¹ + -er ¹

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A bucket truck, also known as a cherry picker, is a vehicle equipped with a hydraulic lift system and an extendable arm that ends in a bucket where a person can stand.

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Temporary workers such as fruit pickers and poultry workers are covered by seasonal worker visas, subject to an annual quota.

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Beador’s picker is the most busted of all the Housewives at this hotel.

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The barefoot man was brought down in a cherry picker as Big Ben struck midnight, after more than 16 hours on a ledge several metres up the tower.

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Westminster Police said the man, who was brought down in a cherry picker after midnight, had been arrested once he reached the ground.

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Pickens pickerel

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