winkle-picker

1. (Ireland, UK)A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.

2. An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.

3. (also, attributive)A style of boot or shoe with a severely pointed toe, fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.

   winkle-picker toes; winkle-picker stilettos

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