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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A child of the Deep South, Haywood, a 2015 Hall of Fame inductee, has said that his only goal growing up was to be the best cotton picker in all of Mississippi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
A third cotton picker sits idle at the edge of the field.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2015
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
Most notable were the corn picker, in 1909, and the cotton picker, in 1942.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.
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