cherry picker

See also: cherrypicker, cherry-picker, and Cherry Picker

English

a cherry picker mounted on a pickup truck

Alternative forms

• cherrypicker, cherry-picker

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^[1]:

     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 a vehicle's engine block.

   Synonyms: engine crane, 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.

Synonyms

• (equipment): boom lift, man lift, basket crane, hydraladder, bucket truck
• (person who cherry-picks, in sports): goalhanger (UK)

Translations

boom lift for lifting people

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• Dutch: hoogwerker (nl) m
• Finnish: henkilönostin
• French: nacelle élévatrice (fr) f
• German: Hubarbeitsbühne (de) f, Arbeitsbühne f, Hebebühne (de) f
• Italian: autocestello, piattaforma aerea f, idroscala f
• Navajo: deigo hoł háádaadlohí
• Romanian: autoturn (ro) n
• Russian: автомоби́ль-вы́шка (ru) m (avtomobílʹ-výška), автовы́шка (ru) f (avtovýška), автогидроподъёмник (ru) m (avtogidropodʺjómnik), самохо́дная площа́дка обслу́живания f (samoxódnaja ploščádka obslúživanija)
• Spanish: plataforma elevadora f
• Thai: รถกระเช้า (rót-grà-cháo)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

one who picks the best for themselves

• Finnish: rusinanpoimija
• German: Rosinenpicker m

See also

• cherry-pick
• teleporter
• manlift (definition 2)