hop-picker

noun

a person employed or a machine used to pick hops

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Words nearby hop-picker

hop trefoil, hop up, hop, skip, and a jump, hop, step, and jump, hop-o'-my-thumb, hop-picker, hopak, hopatcong, hope, hope against hope, hope chest

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Example sentences from the Web for hop-picker

The man had no hat, his clothes were hideous with filth, he had the air of a hop-picker.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson
To-day a hop-picker, bringing a whiff of the sick world's infection through our windows.
My Little Sister|Elizabeth Robins
By the side of the new it looked not even as respectable as an Irish emigrant's; it looked like some Kentish hop-picker's!
Miss Million's Maid|Bertha Ruck