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Definition of cherry picker in English: cherry pickernoun informal 1A hydraulic crane with a railed platform at the end for raising and lowering people, for instance to work on overhead cables. we had to use cherry pickers to get the appropriate camera angles Example sentencesExamples - Just a few moment ago, a man who scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace in a Batman costume was brought down in a cherry picker.
- I took a ride on the cherry picker, a crane that lifted me high enough to see most of the county and, frighteningly, Lindy's blouse in the crowd below me.
- The large crane, on Sheer Jetty, went over at just after 10 am today while attempting to lift a cherry picker crane from the carrier's flight deck, which is covered with scaffolding and canvas as the deck is being repainted.
- They were removing steelwork from an old part of the ground when one of the wheels of the 15-tonne elevated working platform - commonly known as a cherry picker - went through a concrete manhole cover.
- The bucket of the cherry picker came down, and Sonny and Sissy went back up.
- Then they claimed it was because I had deliberately damaged a piece of machinery called a cherry picker.
- Armoured patrol vehicles, nearly a full story high and equipped with cherry picker cranes and anti-personnel cannons, lumber in from a busy night of keeping the sector free of unwanted traffic.
- A police rescue unit was on hand; three tow trucks removed blockading vehicles; a cherry picker was called in to help remove a tripod sitter from his eyrie.
- Two of the eight vehicles have cherry picker baskets capable of extending up to 68 meters.
- With all my respect for the cherry picker, I have to remind you that they have a limited reach, but then again, cherries can also be picked from the ground, but those cherries are not as beautiful as the ones from the tree though.
- I only ask because we want to put a cherry picker there.
- These days he runs his tractors, generators, truck, wood-chipper, cherry picker, and landcruiser on biodiesel.
- The script demanded a moonlit scene, so a cherry picker was hired to suspend a huge 12-kilowatt light above the rooftops.
- Yet this has taken at least six different people, around five days, one cherry picker with a 40 ft extending arm, numerous vans, vehicles and a JCB and part closure of the road.
- Now the students are hoisted up with a cherry picker.
- The cherry picker went up again, and the lineman looped ropes beneath the nest, a bagel-shaped cup four feet across, woven from cottonwood branches and padded with wheatgrass.
- Once staff were sure she was unconscious a cherry picker crane took her to the ground and she was carried to her cage, where she died within about five minutes.
- Red stepped down from the cherry picker and stood beside me at the controls.
- A cleaning firm has been fined £20,000 following an accident in which a worker died when he got trapped between a cherry picker's cage and a roof girder.
- Prison Service negotiators were hoisted up in a cherry picker platform to talk to the prisoner who came down voluntarily at about 6.30 pm.
2A person who cherry-picks. Example sentencesExamples - I whispered, being very deeply struck that a simple cherry picker would have the resources to gather such sensitive information.
- But in Montreal there's always some cherry picker hanging around the front of the line at a bus stop trying his luck.
Definition of cherry picker in US English: cherry pickernounˈtʃɛri ˈpɪkərˈCHerē ˈpikər informal 1A hydraulic crane with a railed platform at the end for raising and lowering people, for instance to work on overhead cables. we had to use cherry pickers to get the appropriate camera angles Example sentencesExamples - The large crane, on Sheer Jetty, went over at just after 10 am today while attempting to lift a cherry picker crane from the carrier's flight deck, which is covered with scaffolding and canvas as the deck is being repainted.
- Just a few moment ago, a man who scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace in a Batman costume was brought down in a cherry picker.
- Prison Service negotiators were hoisted up in a cherry picker platform to talk to the prisoner who came down voluntarily at about 6.30 pm.
- These days he runs his tractors, generators, truck, wood-chipper, cherry picker, and landcruiser on biodiesel.
- Armoured patrol vehicles, nearly a full story high and equipped with cherry picker cranes and anti-personnel cannons, lumber in from a busy night of keeping the sector free of unwanted traffic.
- I only ask because we want to put a cherry picker there.
- They were removing steelwork from an old part of the ground when one of the wheels of the 15-tonne elevated working platform - commonly known as a cherry picker - went through a concrete manhole cover.
- A police rescue unit was on hand; three tow trucks removed blockading vehicles; a cherry picker was called in to help remove a tripod sitter from his eyrie.
- The cherry picker went up again, and the lineman looped ropes beneath the nest, a bagel-shaped cup four feet across, woven from cottonwood branches and padded with wheatgrass.
- Now the students are hoisted up with a cherry picker.
- Then they claimed it was because I had deliberately damaged a piece of machinery called a cherry picker.
- The script demanded a moonlit scene, so a cherry picker was hired to suspend a huge 12-kilowatt light above the rooftops.
- A cleaning firm has been fined £20,000 following an accident in which a worker died when he got trapped between a cherry picker's cage and a roof girder.
- Red stepped down from the cherry picker and stood beside me at the controls.
- The bucket of the cherry picker came down, and Sonny and Sissy went back up.
- With all my respect for the cherry picker, I have to remind you that they have a limited reach, but then again, cherries can also be picked from the ground, but those cherries are not as beautiful as the ones from the tree though.
- Yet this has taken at least six different people, around five days, one cherry picker with a 40 ft extending arm, numerous vans, vehicles and a JCB and part closure of the road.
- Two of the eight vehicles have cherry picker baskets capable of extending up to 68 meters.
- Once staff were sure she was unconscious a cherry picker crane took her to the ground and she was carried to her cage, where she died within about five minutes.
- I took a ride on the cherry picker, a crane that lifted me high enough to see most of the county and, frighteningly, Lindy's blouse in the crowd below me.
2A person who cherry-picks. Example sentencesExamples - I whispered, being very deeply struck that a simple cherry picker would have the resources to gather such sensitive information.
- But in Montreal there's always some cherry picker hanging around the front of the line at a bus stop trying his luck.
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