cherry picker

See also: cherrypicker and cherry-picker

English
a cherry picker mounted on a pickup truck

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Noun

cherry picker (plural cherry pickers)

  1. A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
    • 2019 October 18, “Extinction Rebellion: Central London targeted despite ban”, in BBC News‎:
      Earlier police used a cherry picker to clear protesters perched on a wooden structure built to block the road at Oxford Circus.
  2. A cantilevered tool for installing or removing the engine block from a vehicle (also known as an engine crane or engine hoist)
  3. A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
  4. A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.
    • 2006, Manfred Weidhorn, An Anatomy of Skepticism, →ISBN, page 218:
      Two conclusions stand out: The Bible is a cherry-picker's paradise, and human beings cannot function without double standards.
  5. A person or device that harvests cherries, or that aids in the harvesting of cherries.
    • 1947, John Trecartin Ogden, Food Freezing:
      A relatively high proportion of the cost of production of RSP cherries is in the picking. Pickers are paid [...]. There is considerable interest in a mechanical cherry picker which is reported to be able to double each picker's output.
    • 1994, The World Book Encyclopedia:
      A mechanical cherry picker shakes a cherry tree to loosen the fruit. The cherries drop onto outstretched cloths, roll onto a conveyor, and are deposited in a tank of salt water. The fruit floats in the water and thus is [...]

Usage notes

A cherry picker (sense 1) is differentiated from a manlift in that a cherry picker is always mounted on a truck or other vehicle, and it can reach much higher. The manlift is usually mounted on a piece of small equipment and the cage or bucket is much closer to the ground.

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