cotton picker
a machine for removing the ripe cotton fiber from the standing plant.
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How to use cotton picker in a sentence
Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
It wiped out all necessity for Negro labour in the wheat States, just as a cotton-picker will, some day, in the South.
The Romance of the Reaper | Herbert Newton CassonPatsey, of whom I shall have more to say, was known as the most remarkable cotton picker on Bayou Bœuf.
Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon NorthupMr. Atkins, I'll ask you and yore cotton-picker friend, Happy Jack, to kindly stand second guard.
Bat Wing Bowles | Dane CoolidgeDey was in de nussery, an' I was a rale smart cotton-picker, and couldn't be spar'd to nuss chillen, nohow.'
Iz a natchel-bawn cotton picker, myself, and so is Marthy, and right dar is whar I lowed I had um.
The Southern South | Albert Bushnell Hart
British Dictionary definitions for cotton picker
a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants
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