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.
2. (Mach.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
3. (Weaving) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
4. (Ordnance) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
There apparently was friction between Henry Thomas, 88, a retired fruit picker and sometime junk collector, and other residents of the Reflections I house, said Dade City Police Chief Phil Thompson.
The other new picker is Richard Evans, director of research at Dow Theory Forecasts, a Hammond, Ind., newsletter.
When conditions are just right, as after a rain, a top picker can grab 20,000 and earn about $380.
He's already bagged two of the four diseases he's been stalking, but he's not slowing down. Meet Francis Collins, scientist, Christian, physician and guitar picker.
A growth-stock picker, he says no other group of stocks can match the earnings produced by various types of heath-care concerns.
A former fruit picker enjoyed his first taste of freedom today after 21 years in prison because a judge said perjury and prosecutorial misconduct got him convicted in the deaths of his seven children.
Gartner quit his stock picker's job at Oppenheimer & Co. a decade ago and began offering Wall Street-style insights and recommendations to buyers and sellers of computer equipment.
Bakers will have to ascend a cherry picker just to flick the mozzarella on their creation.
He was eventually removed by a fire crew using a cherry picker.
Authorities said the retired fruit picker had trouble getting along with other elderly residents in the Reflections I home that housed nine people about 45 miles northeast of Tampa.
Authorities said the retired fruit picker argued often with other residents at the Reflections I home that housed nine people some 30 miles northeast of Tampa.
Mr. Harnisch's instinctive, intuitive approach to this situation is one of the qualities that makes him an expert stock picker.
We're already seeing a decrease in demand." The 1987 strawberry crop ripened early, and 20 percent of it was left in the fields because of a picker shortage.
She and Siwy, 31, stepped into the bucket of a firetruck's cherry picker as a wedding march played from a tape machine.
Instead, Vanguard will use three money managers, Equinox Capital Management, Tukman Capital Management and a quantitative stock picker employed by Vanguard itself.