Picker

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪkÉ™(ɹ)

Origin

pick + -er

Full definition of picker

Noun

1. Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
   The apple picker climbed the tree.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 8, That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
2. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
   a date picker
3. (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
4. (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
5. (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.

Derived terms

• cherry picker