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hop-picker

noun
  1. a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
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Historical Examples

  • 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

  • The man had no hat, his clothes were hideous with filth, he had the air of a hop-picker.

  • She wore a boy's cloth cap and a black skirt, and looked very much like a Kentish hop-picker.

    A Spring Walk in Provence

    Archibald Marshall

  • To-day a hop-picker, bringing a whiff of the sick world's infection through our windows.

    My Little Sister

    Elizabeth Robins