noun a priming wire for cleaning the vent.
2. picker ·noun a machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
3. picker ·noun the piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
4. picker ·noun one who, or that which, picks, in any sense, as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.