corn picker

noun

1. a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.

corn-picker

noun

1. a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell

Other Word Forms

• corn picking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of corn picker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Example Sentences

And then it roared to life, an old John Deere pulling an even older corn-picker, creeping toward the final eight rows of corn in a 120-acre field along Yankee Hill Road.

From Washington Times

And this is his corn-picker, a rust-colored contraption of belts and chains and gears and conveyors that revolutionized farming when Magee was a boy.

From Washington Times