appleknocker

[ ap-uhl-nok-er ]

nounSlang.
  1. Northern U.S. a rustic.

  2. a farm laborer, especially a fruit picker.

Origin of appleknocker

1
1910–15; apple + knocker; from the practice of picking apples by knocking them from trees

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