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picker
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13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. picker
  2. picking machine
  3. picker stick
  4. picker-up
  5. bone picker
  6. cherry picker
  7. corn picker
  8. cotton picker
  9. lease picker
  10. sally picker
  11. slate picker
  12. pick sack
  13. brain-picking

pick·er

noun \ˈpi-kər\

Definition of PICKER

: one that picks: as
a : a worker who picks something (as crops)
b : a tool, implement, or machine used in picking something
c : a musician who picks a stringed instrument (as a banjo)
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Examples of PICKER

  1. <a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction>

First Known Use of PICKER

14th century

Related to PICKER

Synonyms
chooser, namer, selector

Rhymes with PICKER

bicker, clicker, dicker, flicker, kicker, liquor, nicker, pricker, sicker, slicker, snicker, sticker, ticker, tricker, vicar, whicker, wicker

picker

noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

Machine for harvesting a crop (e.g., corn, cotton) and preparing it for storage. The mechanical picker removes mainly the desired portion of the plant (e.g., grain and cobs of corn, bolls of cotton) rather than harvesting the entire plant.

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