cotton picker
Americannoun
noun
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a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
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a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants
Etymology
Origin of cotton picker
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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Rafer Lewis Johnson was born during the Depression, Aug. 18, 1935, in Hillsboro, Texas, the second of six children born to Lewis Johnson, a cotton picker and farm handyman, and Alma Gibson Johnson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
A cotton picker will fetch $600,000 new in today’s market.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2014
Nyong'o, who was for Bafta's EE Rising Star award, plays cotton picker Patsey and is at the centre of one of the film's most distressing scenes.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2014
Louvin recounted meeting a lonely teenager -- a young cotton picker named Johnny Cash -- while selling tickets to a show in Arkansas.
From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2011
Atter I lef' Massa I worked at diff'ent jobs, sich as: loader, roustabout on different steamboats an' cotton picker.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
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