picker (piker)

1. One who picks, culls, collects, or gathers: as, a rag - picker; a hop picker. O'er twice three pickers , and no more, extend The bin-man's sway. Smart , The Hop Garden, ii. 2. The workman who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.-3. A tool or apparatus used in different manufacturing proce es involving picking of some sort. (a) In cot ton - manuf . , a machine for opening the tu ocks of bale IMG:content-0129.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] a, wooden drum having rows of iron spikes alternating on its circumference with upright iron ridges c, c, c, which prevent the cotton from pa ing through the machine too rapidly; d, d, wooden lid covering the drum; r, wire gauze covering in the lower part of the drum; r', opening through which the clean cotton is removed; p, feed-cloth; k, l, grooved nipping-rollers; b, pulley. cotton, reducing it to a more fleecy condition, and separating it from dirt and refuse. (b) A priming-wire for cleaning the vent of a gun: usually applied to that used for muskets. (c) In the manège, an instrument for dislodging a stone from the crease between the frog and the sole of a horse's foot, or between the heel of the shoe and the frog. (d) In a steel rod with a very IMG:content-0130.png:[blocks in formation] A playne tale of faith you laugh at, a picked discourse of fancie you meruayle at. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 353. Ferdinand, on the approach of the enemy, had thrown a you sand picked men into the place. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 13. 21. Choice; affected; refined. Certain quaint, pickt , and neat companions, attired-à la mode de France. Greene, Def. of C. Catching. ( Nares .) He is too picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. Shak ., L. L. L., v. 1. 14. pickedevantt, n. See pike - devant . pickedlyt (pik'ed-li), adv . [ picked2 + -ly2.] Choicely; neatly; finely. Nor be the i so trymme nor so pickedly attired as the other be. The Table of Cebes , by Poyngs. ( Nares .) pickedne 1 (pik'ed-nes), n. [ picked + -ne .] The state of being pointed at the end. pickedne 2+ (pik'ed-nes), n . [ picked2 + IMG:content-0131.png:[blocks in formation]