picker

[pik-er]

noun

1. someone or something that picks. pick.

2. a special tool or machine for picking pick fruit, vegetables, etc., from their plants.

3. a machine that picks pick fibers.

4. a person who gathers fruit, flowers, etc.

5. Slang.,  a player of a stringed instrument, especially a banjo.

6. Metallurgy.,  a pointed rod for removing a pattern from a half mold.

ˈpicker

/ ˈpɪkə /

noun

1. a person or thing that picks, esp that gathers fruit, crops, etc

2. (in weaving) a person or the part of the loom that casts the shuttle

Word History and Origins

Origin of picker¹

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

Example Sentences

However, the artist failed to get the consent of the building's residents, who are objecting to the content of the piece, before arriving in a cherry picker to paint it on Thursday.

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

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People have been pictured using cherry pickers and ladders to fly the flags as high as possible.

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has suggested that “able-bodied adults on Medicaid” could serve as crop pickers instead of immigrants, proposing that existing welfare recipients could fill agricultural labor gaps.

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The best pickers could in five hours of work make upward of $150—or nearly twice as much in half the time.

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