picker

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

picker (plural pickers)

1. agent noun of pick; one who picks.

   The apple picker climbed the tree.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:

     I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers.

   1. A worker in a warehouse, responsible for retrieving ordered items.
      • 2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 8, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

        Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.

2. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.

   date picker

   file 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.
7. (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
8. (archaic) A pilferer.

• repick, ripeck

Borrowed from English picker.

picker n (plural pickere)

1. picker (machine)