picker

«picker» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who picks fruit, vegetables, flowers or cotton… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a picker, pickers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who picks fruit, vegetables, flowers or cotton, often as a job. tree →

2) A person or tool that picks or chooses something: a litter picker, a nose picker (rude, joking). tree →

3) (work) A person in a warehouse who collects items for orders. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and social studies, fruit pickers do seasonal farm work (strawberry picking in the UK, fruit picking in Australia and New Zealand for backpackers). At school, a «litter picker» is a grabbing tool for collecting rubbish safely. In history, cotton pickers in the US South were often enslaved people. Phrases: «fruit picker», «litter picker», «cotton picker», «grape picker».

examples

• Strawberry pickers start work very early in summer. tree →
• We used litter pickers to clean the playground. tree →
• My cousin worked as a fruit picker in Queensland. tree →
• The machine is a cotton picker that harvests whole fields. tree →
• Grape pickers fill baskets in the vineyard. tree →
• «Stop it, you nose picker!» laughed my little brother. tree →
• Warehouse pickers collect the things people order online. tree →
• Every bush was weighted to the ground with the largest, dark red, ripe raspberries, such a wealth of berries as two little berry pickers had never found before! tree →

note

Countable: a picker, pickers. From the verb «pick» + -er (a person or tool that does it). Related: «picky» (fussy about food). «Nose picker» is a cheeky, mildly rude joke.

In the corpora

• You can pick up safe litter left by others with gloves or a litter picker; it helps nature and sets a good example.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «picker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.