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Webster 1913 Edition


Picker

Pick′er

,
Noun.
[From
Pick
.]
1.
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.
2.
(Mach.)
A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
3.
(Weaving)
The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
4.
(Ordnance)
A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Webster 1828 Edition


Picker

PICK'ER

,
Noun.
One that picks or culls.
1.
A pickax or instrument for picking or separating.
2.
One that excites a quarrel between himself and another.

Definition 2024


picker

picker

English

Noun

picker (plural pickers)

  1. Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
    The apple picker climbed the tree.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
  2. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
    a date picker
  3. (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
  4. (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
  5. (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
  6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.

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