picker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pick=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

picker, n. [From Pick.].

•  One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.  [1913 Webster]
•  The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.  [1913 Webster]
•  A priming wire for cleaning the vent.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

picker, n.
1 a person or thing that picks.
2 (often in comb.) a person who gathers or collects (hop-picker; rag-picker).

THESAURUS

picker

Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, banjoist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, fiddler, folk guitarist, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, guitar-picker, guitarist, harper, harpist, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lute player, lutenist, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, planter, plowboy, plowman, psalterer, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, string musician, strummer, tea-planter, tenant farmer, thrummer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, twanger, violinist, yeoman, zitherist