picker
/ˈpɪkə/noun
1 [usually with modifier] A person or machine that picks fruit or vegetables: a tomato picker...
- Investigations are continuing after raids on tomato and capsicum pickers and packers near the town.
- Today's tomato pickers toil in often dangerous conditions for rock-bottom wages; they must pick two tons of tomatoes to earn just $50.
- The action, led by the Coalition of Workers, follows a work stoppage last December and a hunger strike by six tomato pickers two seasons ago.
1.1(In a warehouse) an employee who gathers the products needed to complete customers' orders for delivery: hand-held computers tell the pickers how much of what product has to go to which loading dock...
- She took a job in a book warehouse there and spent her workdays as a picker, sorting books and reading them along the way.
- An army of pickers scour the shelves collecting customer orders at the command of their handheld scanners.
- Captains made sure the pickers arrived to work on time and performed their duties as expected.
2 [usually with modifier] A person who plucks the strings of a guitar, banjo, or similar musical instrument: a talented acoustic guitar and banjo picker...
- Besides being a fine banjo picker and showman, he took an unassuming but near academic interest in folk music.
- In my research I have come across a scattering of three-finger banjo pickers who precede him, and they seem to have connections to the three-finger guitar pickers.
- Over an adventurous career he has been a carpenter, welder, Vietnam combat veteran, honky tonk guitar picker, maker of custom Damascus knives and machinist.
