Picker

·noun A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

II. Picker ·noun A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

III. Picker ·noun The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.

IV. Picker ·noun 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.