noun
a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
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Origin of corn picker
An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
OTHER WORDS FROM corn picker
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How to use corn picker in a sentence
For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.
I certainly found it very helpful when I realized we were going to have to grow our own corn.
That must have been some corn for her to remember it 50 years later!
Hilbert was a flashy man who helicoptered five miles daily over corn fields to and from the office.
He is perfectly capable of introducing a bill requiring all cars to run on corn stalks instead of gasoline.
The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.
I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.
The Vine appears at intervals, but is not general through this region: Indian Corn is also rare, and appears in small patches.
Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.
If he has made up his mind that I'm stealing corn nothing I could say would change his opinion.
British Dictionary definitions for corn picker
noun
mainly US and Canadian a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
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