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picker

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picker: see harvester harvester, farm machine that mechanically harvests a crop. Small-grain harvesting has been mechanized to a certain extent since early times. In the modern period the first harvester to gain general acceptance was made by Cyrus McCormick in 1831 (see reaper ).
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picker

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.


picker [′pikĀ·ər]
(mining engineering)
An employee who picks or discards slate and other foreign matter from the coal in an anthracite breaker or at a picking table.
A mechanical arrangement for removing slate from coal.
(textiles)
A machine used to pull apart and separate cotton fibers.


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In the old days a good picker could earn enough in the season to keep her for the rest of the year, but now there was nothing in it; you got a holiday for nothing, and that was about all.
Holmes, a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean.
If you know aught of locks, you will know that the mechanism which this unlooses is beyond the cunning of a picker of locks.
 
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