Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) 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. 2. (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber. 3. (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp. 4. (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Multi-Version Concordance Picker (1 Occurrence) Acts 17:18 And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news, (YLT)