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Definition of Picker
1. Noun. A person who chooses or selects out.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Derivative terms: Pick, Select
2. Noun. Someone who gathers crops or fruits etc..
Definition of Picker
1. n. 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.
Definition of Picker
1. Noun. Agent noun of pick; one who picks. ¹
2. Noun. (computing graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Picker
1. one that picks [n -S] - See also: picks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picker
Literary usage of Picker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"When placing pickers on the picker stick, the part rests on the bottom of the
box is generally cut in such a that, if the picker is held perpendicular, ..."
2. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"The laps from the breaker picker are very uneven in thickness, therefore, four
of these laps are doubled at the back of the intermediate on the traveling ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"There is an upper guide or deflector which extends from the feeding mechanism
over the rotating brush or picker, and forward of it toward the cone, ..."
4. The Insurance Year Book by Spectator insurance yearbook (1888)
"In place of this opening I would suggest a brick flue passing out of the roof of
the picker-house ; which can be protected from the rain, and will act as a ..."
5. Textiles for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools: Also Adapted by William Henry Dooley (1912)
"The first step in the conversion of the bale of cotton into yarn consists in
giving the cot- picker ROOM —SHOWING END VIEW OF picker 1. ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1866)
"2, is an edge view, of a picker constructed according to one modification of ...
The strips of hide forming the picker are folded so that their edges will ..."
7. A Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a by Virginia (1803)
"And no picker of tobacco (hall keep or employ any negro or mulatto Duty. ...
on complaint and motion to them made, to remove fuch picker from his faid ..."
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