A fruit picker or cotton picker, for example, is a person who picks fruit or cotton, usually for money. cotton picker/fruit picker etc a person or machine that picks fruit or vegetables. 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
Male workers who forced bales of raw cotton into the picker machine using sharpened sticks ("picker sticks"), preparatory to carding
Person who deals in petro-collectibles for monetary gain only, with no discernible interest in the petroliana hobby or in petroleum-related history
The part of the jukebox robotics responsible for moving a disk from a storage slot to a drive and back again Some jukeboxes feature "dual pickers" which allows two disks to be swapped without the need to return a disk back to a storage slot first
A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber
A derogatory reference to poor, migrant workers during the Great Depression. These people were unskilled, poorly educated workers, employable only in menial jobs, such as harvesting crops and, as such, received poor wages for working long hours under dreadful conditions
(Mühendislik) A cherry picker (also known as a boom lift or, rarely, as basket crane or hydraladder), is a type of aerial work platform that consists of a platform or bucket at the end of a hydraulic lifting system
A player who stays at center ice and does not help their team on defense They hope to pick up a break out pass with no defenders in their way (We hate cherry pickers because the authors of this site play defense: hey cherry picker - get in the game!)
{i} apparatus used in orchards for picking fruits (not only for picking cherries); mobile crane that can be raised to enable a person to work off the ground (such as working on electrical lines, pruning trees, etc.)