hop-pickern.
A labourer employed to pick the ripe hops from the bines; usually one of a large body who annually migrate to the hop-growing districts to do this work; also, a mechanical contrivance for picking, cleaning, and sorting hops.
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hop-picker1760
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > hop-picker or -cutter
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hop-dog1880
1760 Engraving of picture by G. Smith The Hop Pickers.
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1870) II. 20 To the festivities of Harvest Home must be referred the following popular custom among the hop-pickers in Kent.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hop-picker,..a machine for picking hops.
Derivatives
hop-picking n. the work of picking hops, which annually gives temporary employment in the country to large bodies of the poor.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > hop-picking
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hop-picking1812
1812 Examiner 5 Oct. 629/2 Hop-picking completed.
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