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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as fruitgatherer.

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Examples

  • After working first as a fruit-picker in Rehovot, she moved to the Weizmann Institute, where she was employed in the Preserves Department of its experimental station.

    Shoshana Werner. 2009

  • The crowd in the tea-bar photo had something in common with Gertruida Baartman, a fruit-picker in South Africa on a farm that supplies Tesco.

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

  • When you go to the store and choose a nice apple over a bruised one, you're not rejecting the fruit-picker, you're rejecting THE APPLE.

    Fragile: Contains Dreams. Please Do Not Bend, Fold, or Crush. Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Daytona Stud Farm was fined R25000, with R10,000 suspended, for employing 13-year-old Waronice van Wyk as a fruit-picker.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Daytona Stud Farm was fined R25000, with R10,000 suspended, for employing 13-year-old Waronice van Wyk as a fruit-picker.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Name what I can do to earn a living for us-quick, list the jobs I can get other than a dishwasher, a fruit-picker, a short-order cook-will any of those put me through college, and then through med school?

    Flowers In The Attic Andrews, V. C. 1979

  • Name what I can do to earn a living for us—quick, list the jobs I can get other than a dishwasher, a fruit-picker, a short-order cook—will any of those put me through college, and then through med school?

    Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

  • Name what I can do to earn a living for us—quick, list the jobs I can get other than a dishwasher, a fruit-picker, a short-order cook—will any of those put me through college, and then through med school?

    Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

  • For fruit picking, with tall trees, the wire-fingered fruit-picker, secured to the end of

    Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

  • Like you, Anon. with 7 children I am the mother of 10 AND a fruit-picker.

    RORATE CÆLI 2010

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