What is "pickers"

Usage examples of "pickers".

The pickers scurried about, filling their buckets from the branches, putting the peaches in the boxes, carrying the boxes to the checking station.

An' they was a whole slew a new pickers so goddamn hungry they'd pick for a loaf a bread.

They went into the store which stood at the crossroads, and there were many pickers in the store, buying their supplies.

And more cars parked along the roadside, and new pickers came to be checked in.

The pickers clustered disconsolately back to the barnyard and stood in line to be paid off.

They were the homes of the grape pickers, the people who came to San Aquino in the spring and summer to work the vineyards, then who left after the late season harvest.

So while the owners of the vineyards did not really feel the quake that night, the pickers did.

Don Fia­vorante was sure it could be solved by putting some men on the Gromucci ranch to work on the pickers a little bit.

And, of course, the subculture of the pickers spread its broader unity over all such groups.

The bad blood between Joe Hill and Old Man Rivers intensified as pickers got sick with degenerative, malnutritive, and stress-syndrome diseases and lost ability to work.

He argued that the condition of the pickers, which he deplored as much as Joe Hill did, would not change until underlying economics and social factors changed.

Regardless, the principle of a fixed percentage for the pickers was the key to a long-term settlement.

And thank Pickers again from us for letting you borrow his landspeeder.

Ahead and to the left, rumbling southbound toward them on the other side of the harvested field, were two more harvesters with Pickers and Jurvi at their controls.

Due to both the heat and the mud, most pickers opted for what was basically a panty for the females and a jock strap for the males, a thick bandannalike headband to catch perspiration, and a pair of work gloves to protect the hands in the actual picking.