picker
noun/ˈpɪkər/
Frequency rank: #13,221 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a person or machine that picks or selects items, especially crops or fruit.
Example sentence
The fruit picker moved quickly along the rows, filling baskets with ripe apples.
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