picker

picker
    n 1: a person who chooses or selects out [syn: {picker},
         {chooser}, {selector}]
    2: someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
    

Picker \Pick"er\, n. [From {Pick}.]
   1. 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. "Pickers and stealers."
      --Shak.
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   2. (Mach.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces
      so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
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   3. (Weaving) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the
      shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
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   4. (Ordnance) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
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60 Moby Thesaurus words for "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