Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who picks, culls, collects, or gathers: as, a rag-picker; a hop-picker.
  • noun The workman who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
  • noun A tool or apparatus used in different manufacturing processes involving picking of some sort.
  • noun One who or that which steals; a pilferer.
  • noun A young cod, Gadus morrhua, too small to swallow bait.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax.
  • noun (Mach.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
  • noun (Weaving) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
  • noun (Ordnance) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
  • noun computing, graphical user interface Any user interface control that selects something.
  • noun engineering A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
  • noun weaving The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
  • noun military A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
  • noun slang A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
  • noun a person who chooses or selects out

Etymologies

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pick +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The date range (and comparison) picker is much easier to use than it was and the timeline tool is wonderful, I love using it to define broad ranges.

    New Google Analytics UI : #comments 2007

  • And, lest I come off as a pumpkin picker hater, I'll be hitting the pumpkin patch myself soon-with my 8-month old son in tow.

    The New York Cork Report: 2007

  • My "picker" -- a piece of straight wire with a ring-end -- hung from one of my breast buttons.

    The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

  • The purchase was made under the guidance of Peter Silverman, a Canadian collector who has a reputation in the business (though he dislikes the term) as a "picker" - someone who scours auction houses for undervalued works.

    GoodShit 2010

  • The picker is pretty sweet, I haven’t spent a lot of time with it yet and don’t quite understand everything it’s doing there’s fanciness with hue and saturation and “distance” (for lack of a better word on my part) between colors.

    GeekFinder: Color Matters : #comments 2007

  • If you look at the white truck with the cherry picker, that is a utility truck.

    CNN Transcript May 23, 2008 2008

  • Did they make something called picker sticks there?

    Oral History Interview with Oscar Dearmont Baker, June 1977. Interview H-0110. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1977

  • It seems perfectly apt to find that during the Seventies, Gibson made part of his living as "what antique dealers called a 'picker'", hunting through charity shops and thrift stores for valuable items that could be sold up the chain to collectors.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Tim Martin 2012

  • Read List Method (aka Finder): The query that is going to be executed to get the initial set of items to be shown on the picker will be the default read list method, in the way described above.

    MSDN Blogs lionelro 2010

  • The format of the picker is the same as other iLiveMath apps so it can help teach how this app operates as they grow into Level 2.

    MacMegasite 2010

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