: a traveling crane equipped for holding a passenger at the end of the boom
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: one who cherry-picks
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebLike Simmons, Bryant had been hired by AppleOne to drive a cherry picker.Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022 There were squad cars, ladder trucks, school buses and the cab of a cherry picker truck to climb into and explore. Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022 Lacking a credential, Grossfeld received a permit from Mayor Menino for a hydraulic cherry picker lift on Lansdowne Street. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022 The fan palm is pockmarked with holes — some created by birds, others by humans climbing it to remove the fronds (Exposition Park now uses a cherry picker to reduce stress on the old-timer).Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022 For that one, he was put on a cherry picker and raised 10 feet above the planes, parked on the tarmac. Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022 As neighbors looked on, workers on a cherry picker methodically dismantled No. 28 with a chipping gun, creating a gaptoothed streetscape out of what had been, for 138 years, a pleasingly homogeneous row.New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021 So, Russell, whose wife is a veterinarian, took notes and reached out to the fire chief, who eventually gave the green light for one of his men to go up there aboard the cherry picker.Washington Post, 29 June 2021 Fire and rescue crews arrived and tried to save people from the remaining portions of the building complex with a cherry picker. Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021 See More