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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A farmer or laborer reducing the stoniness of farm fields by picking out the rocks. A role played periodically, not a vocation.
2. 2
   A person, machine, or machine component that cleans out the rocks during ore dressing.

Etymology

From rock + pick + -er.

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