Definition of cherry picker
1 : a traveling crane equipped for holding a passenger at the end of the boom
2 : one who cherry-picks
Examples of cherry picker in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web And then, finally, a small cherry picker crane from the school’s maintenance staff appeared across the field.
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Sam Blum, Dallas News, "Inside the program: Behind-the-scenes look at Stephen F. Austin football as it navigates challenges of 2020," 22 Oct. 2020 Officials said the cubs were brought down from the tree when police officers enlisted the help from BARC Electric, who used a cherry picker to reach the tall branches.
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Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, "3 Bear Cubs Are Rescued by Police After Their Mom Was Struck and Killed by Truck in Virginia," 13 Apr. 2020 Police said a 52-year-old man was moving a Ditch Witch in the alley when he was hit by the cherry picker.
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Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, "Man killed by construction equipment near White Rock Lake, police say," 8 Jan. 2020 The victim was pinned between the Ditch Witch and cherry picker.
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Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, "Man killed by construction equipment near White Rock Lake, police say," 8 Jan. 2020 After Fiery Plane Crash Photos from the scene show two apparent firefighters standing beside the plane in a cherry picker.
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Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, "Pilot Survives After Crashing Plane Into Power Lines, Leaving Aircraft Hanging Upside Down," 25 Nov. 2019 Ultimately, a cherry picker brought in from Glasgow was used to transport technicians and firefighters to the top of the chimney and lower the man down.
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Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, "Man dies after getting trapped at the top of a 290-foot chimney," 28 Oct. 2019 Later, Prager strapped herself into a safety harness and was lifted above the cast in a cherry picker.
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Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, "Alex Prager is a photographer and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles.," 1 Sep. 2019 The bird is then brought down aboard the cherry picker.
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Fox News, "Watch firefighters save great horned owl trapped in fishing line," 8 July 2019
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