A worker who sorts through pieces of wool trimmed from fleeces in a shearing shed.
coarse belly wool was thrown into a bin for the piece-pickers to sort
Example sentencesExamples
- The skirtings are thrown into a bin and are handled again by the piece-picker.
- Ordinarily the piece picker makes three lots from what comes to his table.
- The wool roller folded the fleece and passed it to the piece picker.
- The piece picker's table should be 6 x 4 feet and have a top made of smooth, rounded battens.
- They found that the services of a piece-picker and a wool roller could be dispensed with.
- He obtained a job in a shearing shed as a piece picker.
- Very few sheds today employ a piece picker to skirt the pieces taken from the fleece.
- I would quickly gather up the four corners of the fleece and throw it onto the table for the piece-picker.
- The piece picker carefully goes through each fleece on a properly constructed table.
- The trimmings are tossed to the piece-pickers at the next table.