Picker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  picker
       n 1: a person who chooses or selects out [syn: {chooser}, {selector}]
       2: someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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