Someone who picks or gathers fruit, flowers, roots, hops, cotton, potatoes, and other produce. Someone who picks through rags, refuse, and garbage, looking for things of some worth. A thief who makes off with anything that isn't nailed down.
“Forty-five thousand men and women subsisting on pickings from household rubbish. There are pickers and pickers, grades, aristocrats and plebeians in this profession as in every other.”
Daily News (1893).
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