Crossword clues for picker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picker \Pick"er\, n. [From Pick.]
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.(Mach.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
(Weaving) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
(Ordnance) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "one who steals;" literal use "one who picks" is from 1660s; agent noun from pick (v.). From 1923 as "one who plays the banjo." Picker-upper attested from 1936.
Wiktionary
n. agent noun of pick; one who picks.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Picker is a surname found in the English-speaking world. Many people with this surname are Jewish and emigrated, or are descendants of those who emigrated, from parts of eastern Europe, including Russia, Belarus and Poland, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The surname is principally derived from the Yiddish word for the occupation "baker" and is synonymous with the surnames Peker, Baker, and Becker since the letters "p" and "b" have the same Yiddish pronunciation.
Picker may refer to:
- Picker (surname), including a list of people so named
- A farmworker at harvest time
- Picker, a slang word for a player of a string instrument such as a guitar or banjo
- A common job title for order picking in a warehouse
- A person who finds valuable items in other people's junk, as featured in the TV show American Pickers
Usage examples of "picker".
There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .
Other gangs, when they got new kameezes, sold the ragged bits of their old ones to a picker for a cornet of curried peas or some other luxury.
She was looking at each of the pickers in turn, her optronic lens imaging their faces.
He flinched at what he saw in her eyes, swung hastily back to face Picker.
He swung a grin to Picker, then bowed before the entrance in invitation.
John Subprime turned his attention to the sheep, and when he did so, John slipped around the bales and behind the corn picker.
There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .
The woman glanced at them and then gave a longer look, but the Sulcar snapped his fingers at the fruit picker.
Shahnate has been brought: this my husband, Shah Zaman, who was once Shahinshah of all the Empire of Persia, is now a pigeon keeper and cherry picker!
PickerI want all these longbows trundled out and issued to everyone without a munition or spell in hand, twenty arrows each, and I want them to have pikes as well.
Down at the bottom, well behind the last of the Pannions, Picker and her squads had emerged from cover, bows in hand, and wereParan hopedtaking down those of the enemy who had managed to avoid the ambush and were attempting to flee.
Picker and the others would later learn of the sudden and bloody pitched battle that occurred at the landings on the coast and on the shore of Catlin River.
One of the linkmen hummed loudly, rather more of a shout than a hum, while the other sang in a clear falsetto: _I've a basket and a berry, tra-la-la__ _And I'm singing oh so merry, tra-la-la__ _For the sun is shining yellow__ _And the clouds go sailing by,__ _And I'm such a jolly fellow, tra-la-la,__ Jonathan remarked to himself that linkmen, although superb jam makers and fruit pickers and, no doubt, altogether fine chaps, weren't poets.
Of the three Rangers in the cherry picker, two were armed with accurized M-21 automatic rifles fitted with high-magnification image-intensifier sights.
A sixth of a bell later, Picker once more approached the street facing the compound wall.