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👩‍🌾 A person who gathers 🤖 A machine for picking
picker

picker

3 4.1
A machine or robot that picks fruit from trees
  • noun
  • /ˈpɪkər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cosechadora
  • Overs travel down a conveyor where pickers (from two to four employees, depending on circumstances) pull contaminants.
  • picker pulls contaminants

I'm going to buy a fruit picker to get these down, but wow, this is an A+ pear.

Examples

  • With the new vegetable picker, we can gather carrots more efficiently at harvest time.

  • Now, each item is brought to the picker, saving more than 50 percent of the picking time.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Light trees tell the picker the location and quantity to pick, and a sort bar tells the picker into which orders to place the picked items.

    Academic text (2000)

  • On an average day, a picker can fill five bins with Galas worth $125 in wages.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • A front-end loader pushes materials onto the in-feed conveyor, which carries them to the elevated sorting stations where four pickers pull out more nonorganics.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The robotic picker swiftly harvested apples from the trees in the orchard.

  • Farmers are increasingly using automated pickers to speed up the fruit-gathering process.

Synonyms

harvester
vspicker
9 2.0

A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready

is an automated device that picks fruit rather than a human worker

Compounds

picker-upper
  • Informal
1 6.6

Something that makes you feel happier and more energetic

hop-picker
  • Specialized
8.2

A machine that takes hops from plants during harvest

picker-up
  • Archaic
7.4

A person who collects litter from places like beaches or parks

How Automated

picker
  • Specialized
3 4.1
harvester
9 2.0

Surface Forms

picker singular
pickers plural

Morphology

picker = pick (transparent) = pick + er

Agentive formation extended to devices: 'pick' + '-er' = device that picks; the extension to machines is a straightforward semantic broadening.

Etymology

The word picker is also used for a machine and has the same parts: pick 'to take or choose' plus -er 'one who or that which does something'. That is why a picker machine is simply a device that picks fruit or other crops for harvest.