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picker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun picker has 2 senses
- picker(n = noun.person) chooser, selector - a person who chooses or selects out; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- picker(n = noun.person) Array - someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.; Array is a kind of farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand
Derived form verb pick1
Derived form verb pick2
CIDE DICTIONARY
picker, n. [From Pick.].
- One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber. [1913 Webster]
- The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp. [1913 Webster]
- A priming wire for cleaning the vent. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
picker, n.
1 a person or thing that picks.
2 (often in comb.) a person who gathers or collects (hop-picker; rag-picker).
1 a person or thing that picks.
2 (often in comb.) a person who gathers or collects (hop-picker; rag-picker).
THESAURUS
picker
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, banjoist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, fiddler, folk guitarist, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, guitar-picker, guitarist, harper, harpist, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lute player, lutenist, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, planter, plowboy, plowman, psalterer, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, string musician, strummer, tea-planter, tenant farmer, thrummer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, twanger, violinist, yeoman, zitherist
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