1.
[syn: picker, chooser, selector]
2. someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Picker \Pick"er\, n. [From Pick.]
1. 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. "Pickers and stealers."
--Shak.
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2. (Mach.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces
so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
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3. (Weaving) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the
shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
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4. (Ordnance) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
picker
n 1: a person who chooses or selects out [syn: picker,
chooser, selector]
2: someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "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