The manufacture then spread through Switzerland and Germany, the product being used in the main for picker straps, belting and purposes where waterproof goods were required, such as hose pipes and military water bags.
Transparent leather is a rather horny product, somewhat like raw hide, and has been used for stitching belts and picker bands.
Swedish and Norwegian hides are evenly grown and of good texture; they are well flayed, and used a great deal for manufacturing picker bands, which require an even leather.
The fans of the picker room, drawing their supply from underneath the building, produce a circulation of air which keeps the timber in good condition.
Literally it is "a picker up of seeds"--that is to say, a sciolist who gathers scraps from profounder people and gives them out with an air.
Even the city unemployed could gather a bunch of grapes or pick an olive, just as they can with us, or just as the London hop-picker can take a holiday and earn a little money in Kent.
This picker is copied after The Kenneth Dick machine with some variations in the separation process.
I have not yet built the picker but a number of the parts have already been machined and before long it will be a reality.
The third machine is the pickerwhich has yet to be assembled.
Then there is a comb that picks off the adhering kernels from the picker prongs.
It is Sam's business to give each picker a row of berries, and he carries a brass-headed cane as the baton of authority.
If the fruit falls much below the accepted standard, the baskets are confiscated and no tickets given for them, and if the picker continues careless he is sent out of the field.
If a trayful, or six good quarts, are offered, the buyer gives the picker a yellow ticket, worth twelve cents.
Occasionally, in the forest, a thin column of blue smoke showed where some rubber-picker was smoking his morning's collection of rubber milk.
Coffee reappeared, and the Indian wife of the picker or patrón served it at once on our arrival, and then rolled cigarettes from home-grown tobacco.
It was my old friend the log of wood, the bud of the cabbage palm chopped by a rubber picker somewhere out in the forest.
Well--they are bad this year down the river farther--a picker was killed last week only a half day's march from the river.
One was a negro who had been a rubberpicker down the river before.
The busy picker stops now and then to sample a few.
Rarely can a human berry-picker find a ripe berry, to discover how it tastes.
Each picker was given a row, and he was not allowed to change until it was finished.
Father pays five cents a box for picking, and a good picker will gather about forty boxes in a day.
Each picker carries a sack slung over one shoulder, and as fast as he cuts off an orange, he drops it into the sack.
A goodpicker gathers about three bushels in a day.
Pa Hooper told the girls that a professional picker usually made from six to ten dollars a day.
Mr. Hooper really needs everypicker he can get,” Miss Gordon said soberly.
If you’re a good picker and stick to it, the sum should grow and grow like Jack’s beanstalk.
In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.
Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.
In Paris, even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the Piraeus.
In 1733 he had succeeded in inventing the picker motion, "picker peg," or "fly.
Without capital, they followed the ways of the itinerant rubber picker and had gathered "caucho," the poorer of the two kinds of rubber.
No capital is required; thepicker simply cuts down the likeliest trees, gathers the coagulated sap, and floats it down-stream to market.
The cutting end of the picker is frequently replaced by a scratcher, Figs.
The picker is fixed upon the same rods above the mizer, and is used simultaneously, being raised and lowered with that tool.
An old rag-picker had just brought in a sensational piece of news-- "We're all doomed!
The old rag-picker was knocked down, struggling and shrieking under the feet of the legionaries.
No matter if the farmer receives ten or thirty cents a box for his fruit, the picker receives no better wage.
I suppose he thought I was only a poor, starving berry picker or farm hand who, at his command, would cringingly creep on in the boiling sun, like a dog, to another shady spot.
Each picker is assigned a tree, and his empty boxes are distributed to him from the wagon.
The next picker puts his in the next barrel, and so on, so that each succeeding picker deposits his apples in the next succeeding barrel.
Each picker is provided with tickets of a certain number which corresponds to the one opposite his name on the sheet tacked to a small board or clip carried by the foreman.
The sack should not be shifted about, and the picker should not be allowed to lean against the rungs of the ladder with the filled sack between.
The picker hangs the basket on the tree, on the ladder rung, or sets it on the ground and then proceeds to shoot the apples into the basket from distances of one foot or six or eight feet away.
It is only a step from 'picker boy' to 'bobbin boy.
Two systems of managing pickers are in vogue: They are employed by the day in charge of a competent foreman; or the picker is supplied with tickets or tally cards and is paid by the basket.
The picker tells by eye and by pressure of the peach between thumb and finger when a peach is ready for picking.
All the spot cash money he got for selling everything, pigs, pastures, pepper pickers, pitchforks, Gimme the Ax put in a ragbag and slung on his back like a rag picker going home.
A horrible feeling sprang up in my heart--an impulse of actual hatred towards my mother--as the hop-picker disappeared.
Baron Hoffman is the rag-picker who assassinated Marie's father twenty years before.
Henri Berville is the son of the banker whose cashier the ex-rag-picker has killed, and with whom, subsequently, he has entered into partnership.
The fee she had received was ten thousand francs, and this was the sum, in bank-notes, which the rag-picker had discovered at the end of his crook.
Let us glance at the character of the Paris rag-picker as represented by a French writer of keen observation.
The rag-picker does not exercise too nice a faculty of discrimination whilst filling his basket.
Illustration: "The rag picker can be an honest man as well as another, Josef.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
