hop-picker
noun
a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
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Examples from the Web for hop-picker
Historical Examples of hop-picker
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 MaidBertha Ruck
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
She wore a boy's cloth cap and a black skirt, and looked very much like a Kentish hop-picker.
A Spring Walk in ProvenceArchibald Marshall
To-day a hop-picker, bringing a whiff of the sick world's infection through our windows.
My Little SisterElizabeth Robins