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单词 hop picker
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Definition of hop picker in English:

hop picker

noun
  • A person who picks hops.

    traditionally, hop pickers were paid by the number of bushels picked
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Kent, hop pickers are shown harvesting the hops and in their hoppers' huts after work.
    • The farm cottages were once used to house fruit and hop pickers.
    • I don't see any hop pickers standing out over the bins picking the hops from the bine in time-honoured fashion.
    • "I live at the brewery more than I like to admit," said a hops picker who lives right next door.
    • There were many hop-related occupations, like the hop master who was generally employed to oversee the business, and the hop picker, measurer, and tally man.
    • The smart hop picker knew the importance of gaining the best information about these specifics.
    • Hop pickers from the East End of London have been arriving in the Kent hop fields during the last few days, and already they're hard at work.
    • He believed a hop-picker's union would be doomed to failure, as "about half the pickers are women or gypsies, and are too stupid to see the advantages of one".
    • When women responded to the call for manufacturing jobs during World War II, the colorful days of the hop picker all but came to a close.
    • The sociologist took a job as a hop picker and surveyed 27 of her co-workers in a Willamette Valley field during the summer of 1907.
 
 
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