单词 | piece picker |
释义 | > as lemmaspiece picker piece picker n. New Zealand = fleece-picker n. at fleece n. Compounds 2; cf. sense 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > fleece-picker picker-up1611 fleece-picker1861 fleece-o1894 piece picker1899 1899 G. Jeffrey Princ. Australasian Woolclassing 51 The skirtings are thrown on the floor until the ‘Piece Pickers’ gather them up and sort them. 1989 N.Z. Eng. Newslet. iii. 27 Because of the variety of functions shedhands perform the names they are known by are also varied. For example..‘wool roller’, ‘piece picker’. < as lemmas |
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