cotton-picker
11picker — pick|er [ˈpıkə US ər] n cotton picker/fruit picker etc a person or machine that picks fruit or vegetables …
12picker — noun (C) cotton picker/fruit picker etc a person or machine that picks things, especially crops: Orange pickers are on strike in California …
13picker — pick|er [ pıkər ] noun count a person or machine that picks fruit or other crops: apple/cotton picker …
14cotton-picking — (adj.) as a deprecatory term first recorded in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but a similar noun meaning contemptible person dates to around 1919, perhaps with racist overtones that have faded over the years. Before mechanization, cotton picking was the… …
15cotton — /kot n/, n. 1. a soft, white, downy substance consisting of the hairs or fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family, used in making fabrics, thread, wadding, etc. 2. the plant itself, having… …
16Cotton — /kot n/, n. John, 1584 1652, U.S. clergyman, colonist, and author (grandfather of Cotton Mather). * * * I Seed hair fibre of various plants of the genus Gossypium, in the mallow family, native to most subtropical countries. The shrubby plants… …
17picker — /pik euhr/, n. 1. someone or something that picks. 2. a special tool or machine for picking fruit, vegetables, etc., from their plants. 3. a machine that picks fibers. 4. a person who gathers fruit, flowers, etc. 5. Slang. a player of a stringed… …
18cotton harvester — ▪ machine machine for harvesting cotton bolls. Mechanical cotton harvesters are of two basic types, strippers and pickers. Stripper type harvesters strip the entire plant of both open and unopened bolls along with many leaves and stems. The …
19cotton — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ 100%, pure ▪ a pure cotton T shirt ▪ light, thin ▪ She was shivering in her thin cotton dress ▪ …
20picker — noun Picker is used after these nouns: ↑cotton, ↑mushroom …
