Picker vs Ricker - What's the difference?
picker | ricker |
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
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, title= (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
(engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
(weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
(military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
As nouns the difference between picker and ricker
is that picker is agent noun of pick; one who picks while ricker is a stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.picker
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker' s overalls.}}
