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cherry-picker Lumbering, Slang 
1 n. See quote.
- 1942 (1946) Cherry-picker. A small donkey engine loaded on to a skeleton car or flat car and taken out along the track to pick up logs or loads dropped from cars on the way down to the Beach.
2 n. a large machine, mounted on a caterpillar tractor, for picking up long, heavy logs.
- 1962 [Caption] This fabulous machine for loading the enormous logs from the British Columbia forests onto trailers is nicknamed the "cherry-picker."
- 1942 (1946) Cherry-picker. A small donkey engine loaded on to a skeleton car or flat car and taken out along the track to pick up logs or loads dropped from cars on the way down to the Beach.