picker
/ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/ noun B2- A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
- Any user interface control that selects something. · date picker· file picker
- A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
- The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
- A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
- One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
Plural pickers
From the library
Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard.”
Holmes, a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean.
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