Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for picking cotton from the bolls of the plant.
- noun A machine used to open cotton further and clean it from dirt and other extraneous matter, after it comes from the cotton-opener.
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Examples
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Wolf co-authored 12 of the 14 songs, but you'd swear none of them is new -- though original, the music has the authority of classic R&B, old-time country, Philly soul, Mississippi cotton-picker blues and more.
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B, old-time country, Philly soul, Mississippi cotton-picker blues and more.
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Also, any possible cotton-picker jokes and puns aside, I didn't thing you would actually start calling him by the actual fabric his grandfathers gathered.
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She referred to herself as “that little urchin cotton-picker from the South, Eartha Mae.”
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Mr. BROWN: There is a cotton-picker who's sitting down, not working, hanging out, looking kind of lazy and having fun.
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If I were working in a corporation I would never walk into a business meeting and use the terms cotton-picker or wetback or money-changer or watermelon-eater or any of that race-related garbage.
Friday Night Open Thread: Comics Rogers 2005
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Dey was in de nussery, an 'I was a rale smart cotton-picker, and couldn't be spar'd to nuss chillen, nohow.'
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"Dat Boy is sho one cotton-picker!" cried Jim Pemberton, regarding him with grinning admiration.
The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 1905
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A very tall and lithe young woman, one of mammy's "brer Billy's" children, was the best cotton-picker at Burleigh.
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I having got a good name as a cotton-picker, he refused two thousand five hundred dollars for me, and the same for another boy, named Ned, he being a single man.
An Autobiography. Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, from My Green Brier House. Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom Israel Campbell 1861
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