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hop-picker
hop-picker A labourer employed to pick the ripe hops from the bines; usually one of a large body who annually migrate to the hop-growing districts to do this work; also, a mechanical contrivance for picking, cleaning, and sorting hops. So hop-picking, the work of picking hops, which annually gives t...
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John Young Stratton
By the 1870s, so many people headed for the annual hop harvest that railway companies ran ‘Hop-Picker Specials’ to transport the workforce to Kent. If a hop-picker crossed the line, they would receive a black mark from the Society, with every chance they would struggle to be placed in future.
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Bud Fowler
Early life
The son of a hop-picker and barber, Bud Fowler was christened John W. Jackson.
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picker
▪ I. picker1 (ˈpɪkə(r)) [f. pick v.1 + -er1.] 1. generally. A person who picks. a. One who picks, plucks off, or gathers (fruit, flowers, roots, hops, cotton, potatoes, etc.); one who picks up or collects (rags, refuse, etc.). Also a second element in numerous combinations, as fruit-picker, hop-pick...
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Caroline Mary Luard
The idea that the murderer was a gypsy, hop-picker, or itinerant, with a revolver in his pocket, who was prepared to perpetrate a random killing for the
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Hawkhurst branch line
This traffic was however already in decline as rising living standards and paid holidays led to a decline in the hop-picker workforce, and many of those
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picke
▪ I. pick, n.1 (pɪk) Forms: 4 pikk, 4–6 pyk(k, 4–8 pic, 5 pikke, pykke, 6 pict, pycke, 6–7 picke, 7 pik, 6– pick. [app. a collateral form, with short vowel, of pike n.1 (Cf. the collateral forms pick and pike in pick v.1) Pick is the form in general English use in sense 1; in other senses it is eith...
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