picker

What it means

1. Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
   1. A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.

      "Farmers can't get sufficient fruit pickers," he said. "It is the same pool of labour, agency staff [who are] largely eastern European [and] a huge number of them Polish."

      2021 August 27, “Fruit picker shortage spreads to Christmas workers”, in BBC News, United States, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025

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      Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.

      2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 8, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN

2. computingAny user interface control that selects something.

   date picker

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   file picker

3. engineeringA machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.

In a sentence

The apple picker climbed the tree.

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishpikere
2. Englishpicker

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.