What is the name meaning of PICKER. Phrases containing PICKER
See name meanings and uses of PICKER!PICKER
PICKER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Pickerill.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall suggests that this was earlier PÄ«cÅringas ‘people on the ridge of the pointed hill’ (see Orr 3 and Pike 1).John Pickering of Newgate, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, came to MA in the early 1630s. He married Elizabeth Alderman in Ipswich, MA, in 1636 and moved a year later to Salem.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who used a pick, from Middle English pi(c)k ‘pick’ (see Pick) + the agent suffix -er.English : occupational name for someone who caught or sold pike, from Middle English pike ‘pike’ + the agent suffix -er.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a pointed hill (see Pike 1), the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.German : occupational name for someone who used a pick or pickaxe, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bicken ‘to prick or stab’.Dutch : occupational name for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower, from Middle Dutch picker, pecker.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ with the noun suffix -er.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Picker.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ + man ‘man’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : altered form of Pickering.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Pickerell.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : altered form of Pickering.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English pykerell ‘young pike’ (from Middle English pike ‘pike’ (a predatory fish) + the diminutive suffix -erel), applied as a nickname for a sharp and aggressive person, or possibly as a metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of these fish.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Pickerill.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : occupational name for a picker of fruit or vegetables or a reaper of cereal crops, from an agent derivative of Middle English cropt(en) ‘to pick’. The word was used also to denote the polling of cattle and the name may therefore have been given to someone who did this.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Pickerill.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Yorkshire) and German
English (mainly Yorkshire) and German : variant of Picard.English : some early examples, such as Paganus filius Pichardi (Hampshire, 1160), seem to point to derivation from a Germanic personal name, probably composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point’, ‘pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.Dutch : regional name for someone from Picardy in northern France.German : variant of Picker 4.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Pickerell.
PICKER
PICKER
PICKER
PICKER
PICKER
PICKER
PICKER
n.
One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
n.
A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
n.
Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
n.
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.
n.
An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
n.
The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.
n.
A young or small pike.
sing. & pl.
A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
n.
A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.
n.
The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
n.
A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
n.
Petty theft.
n.
A young pike; a pickerel.
n.
The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.
n.
The pickerel weed.
n.
The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.