PICKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does picker mean? 

• PICKER (noun)
  The noun PICKER has 2 senses:

1. a person who chooses or selects out

2. someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.

  Familiarity information: PICKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who chooses or selects out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chooser; picker; selector

Hypernyms ("picker" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

pick (select carefully from a group)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("picker" is a kind of...):

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)

Derivation:

pick (look for and gather)

 Context examples 

It was sufficiently late in the year for the orchards to be ruddy with ripe apples; and in a few places the hop-pickers were already at work.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At four o'clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)