cotton-pickern.
U.S.
a. One who picks cotton from the bolls of the plant; also, a machine for doing this.
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1833 Deb. Congress 26 Jan. 1363 To save this cost [i.e. of picking cotton by hand], a cotton picker has been invented.
1849 Sci. Amer. 17 Feb. 1/1 (heading) New Cotton Picker... It is said to be able to pick two thousand pounds of cotton per day from the field doing the work of 20 hands.
1850 ‘M. Tensas’ Odd Leaves from Louisiana Swamp Doctor 35 Behold me, then, a student of medicine, but yesterday a cotton-picker.
1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas 52 A slate hung in the piazza, with the names of all the cotton-pickers.
1937 D. Coolidge Texas Cowboys 15 Eastern Texas, according to the punchers, is given over to cotton and corn, and their favorite term of reproach is to call a man a cotton-picker.
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b. A machine for cleaning and dressing cotton.
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