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cherry picker
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cherry picker [′cher·ē ‚pik·ər]
(aerospace engineering)
A crane used to remove the aerospace capsule containing astronauts from the top of the rocket in the event of a malfunction.
(mechanical engineering)
Any of several small traveling cranes, especially one used to hoist a passenger on the end of a boom.
(mining engineering)
A small hoist used to facilitate car changing near the loader in a mine tunnel.
cherry picker
A machine for lifting men or materials on a platform at the end of an extendable boom; usually mounted on a carrier with wheels to provide mobility.
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So here's the abridged version: applied online, shocked when chosen at random, went to London, took a 3ft penguin, felt nervous, got on cherrypicker, got on plinth, made origami birds for hour, dropped them off plinth to children, parasol blew off plinth (nobody injured), got off plinth, wrote lots about experience and bored my friends.
An individual statement made by thousands of people by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The 55-year-old was working on a cherrypicker demolishing sections of the yard when a falling structural beam smashed into his machine.
Second tragedy for family as son found dead by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Byline: EUAN STRETCH PARROT owner Emma Hooper had to hire a cherrypicker to get her pet macaw Cleo out of a tree.
Cherrypick my macaw from a tree; RESCUE by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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