English Explanatory Dictionary

rockpicker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A farmer or laborer reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A role played periodically, not a vocation.
A person, machine, or machine component that cleans out the rocks during ore dressing.

Word forms

rockpicker rockpickers

Etymology

From rock + pick + -er.

Related words

rockpicking air knife

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