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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Harvests fruits and nuts, such as cherries, strawberries, grapes, oranges, and pecans, according to method appropriate for type of fruit, by hand or using tools, such as shears, rubber mallet, pronged scoop, or hooked pole: Carries and positions work aids, such as ladders, canvas drop cloths, and buckets. Selects fruit to be harvested, according to size, shape, and color. Grasps, twists, and pulls fruit, snips stems, and shakes trees and vines to separate crop from plant and places fruit into bags, buckets, or trays, exercising care to avoid plant and fruit damage. Empties filled containers into collection boxes and bins. May stand on ladders or elevated platforms, stoop over plants, or crawl along rows to reach fruit. May measure fruit, using gauges. May pour fruit through screens when removing foreign matter, such as twigs and grasses. May position hand held vibrating device against branches of bushes to shake ripe fruit from branches. May dump fruit from containers onto conveyors or load containers onto trucks or wagons. May remove ladders, debris, boxes, and discarded fruit from fields and bogs to clean growing areas. May collect fallen nuts into piles, using rake. May carry and position irrigation pipes. May be identified with tasks being performed, such as rhubarb trimming, cranberry screening, and walnut knocking. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fruit picker with truck load of apples. Camden County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fruit picker | 34 |
fruit picker tool | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FRUIT PICKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Maya | eensah. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uitfray ickerpay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-i-k-p-r-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: ferritic, fruitier, prickier, pruritic, purifier, terrific, trickier. | |
-4 letters: cuprite, fruiter, pickier, picrite, picture, pricier, pricker, pricket, recruit, tricker, trickie, trucker, turfier. | |
-5 letters: curite, currie, curter, euripi, ferric, ickier, irrupt, picker, picket, pitier, precut, pricer, pucker, ticker, tucker, uptick, uretic. | |
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