Meanings
plural hop pickers · alternative hop-picker
- A person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.
Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.
1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 1701 more example
Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.
1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182
Translations
Irish buanaí leannlus
- buanaí leannlusa person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season
Polish zbieracz chmielu, zbieraczka chmielu
- zbieracz chmielua person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season
- zbieraczka chmielua person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season
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