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Picker   /pˈɪkər/   Listen
noun
Picker  n.  
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."
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.





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"Picker" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shakespeare was the name of a puddin', they's many a big league author come from families which confined their readin' matter to the city directory, and so it goes all along the line—Columbus's old man was a cotton picker. You don't inherit success, you take it by force, usin' your ambition, nerve and ability as ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer
... these pasteboard knights and all the other trash that surrounds them, that actually, after his hegira, kept the old rag-picker and costumer, Harro Eberhard Hassenreuter, above water. But let's speak of cheerful things: I saw with pleasure in the paper that his Excellency has engaged ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
... the lever, g, arranged to operate as set forth, the incline, n, or its equivalent, for relieving the picker from the action of the spring, i, to permit free movement of the shuttle boxes, substantially as ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... contemptuously styled the Dwarf-nation, and always despised as a mere imitator and brain-picker of Chinese wisdom, now swims definitively into the ken of the Manchu court. The Formosan imbroglio had been forgotten as soon as it was over, and the recent rapid progress of Japan on Western lines towards ...
— China and the Manchus • Herbert A. Giles
... Karshish, the picker up of learning's crumbs iv. 186 Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King vi. 3 King Charles, and who'll do him right now? vi. 5 "Knowledged deposed, then!"—groaned whom that most ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr


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