pickers

Noun

picker (plural pickers)

1. A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
   • 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. Any user interface control that selects something.
   • date picker
3. A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
4. The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
5. A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.

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