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cherrypicker
noun
Alternative form of cherry picker
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Just in time for the visit to Canberra next month of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their baby son, Prince George, experts have been dangling from a cherrypicker all week meticulously cleaning the bronze statue of the king who led Britain and Australia through the first world war.
Hamburg's pre-match revving up of the crowd included the unusual sight, and sound, of a rock band being hoisted into the air behind a goal on a huge cherrypicker to serenade them.
Douglas Baz, the photographer, hopped onto a cherrypicker and people arranged themselves around the Getty pumps in the form of a chevron.
Her first experience of this perspective, she explains, was "from a cherrypicker on one of the coldest days of last year, in snow and blizzards.
Mr. Diffenderffer said he was rescued hours later, at 6 30 a.m., by a cherrypicker.
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Glenbuck in Ayrshire has also disappeared, though the long-defunct Glenbuck Cherrypickers will endure in football history as the team that produced several distinguished players, including Bill Shankly.
It is ball sports that set the town's heart racing, and Cherrypickers of note include former Canberra Raiders Brett Mullins and Simon Woolford, and Melbourne Storm's Jordan McLean.
The first football club Bill Shankly was associated with was a team in Ayrshire called the Glenbuck Cherrypickers which, as Sir Alex Ferguson is fond of explaining to know-nothings from south of the border, had little to do with bucolic fruit-harvesting but was a colliery term for selecting the best bits of coal on a pit-head conveyor.
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