1870 28 Nov. 5/2 Reports from Versailles state that the potato gatherers come over to the Prussian lines by thousands, and they have to be fired upon by the Prussians to drive them back to the city.
1900 11 Feb. 6/4 His subjects were..peasants, potato-gatherers, fisher-folk.
2004 (Nexis) 8 Oct. 39 Officers suspect they had been working illegally as fruit-pickers and potato gatherers for meagre wages.