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Definition of Hop-picker
1. Noun. A machine used for picking hops.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop-picker
Literary usage of Hop-picker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Kent with Charles Dickens by Thomas Frost (1880)
"... on the road to Canterbury—Going a-hopping—A hop- picker's experiences of Kent
and Bermuda—The convict's story. "WHERE is Dingley Dell? ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1877)
"It was the same in all things—over-charge, under-weight, and adulteration were
universal for the hop-picker. And yet Sutton Valence is evidently a pious ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1877)
"... hop-picker to any quantity of text and cant. A number of pickers attempted to
rectify the wrong practised on them by the measurers in their own way. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1904)
"The Prince is disguised as a hop- picker," he reminded him. ... The Prince beckoned
to the waiting Nubians— " " He is still a hop-picker,'' remarked the ..."
5. British Farmer's Magazine (1871)
"THE HOP PICKER. The annual meeting of the Society for the Employment and Improved
Lodging of the Нор-picker, was held at Maid- stone, the president, ..."
6. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1869)
"... hop-picker,) won the Plate ! In further proof of what large sums the most
successful strains will fetch at the hammer, we need only point to the results ..."
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