Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which gathers fruit; specifically, a device for gathering fruit from trees, as a pair of shears attached to the end of a pole, and operated by means of a cord.
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No frost had yet bound up the earth; it had only stripped the trees with a touch as gentle as that of the fruit-gatherer.
Deerbrook Harriet Martineau 1839
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