winkle-picker

noun3

1. •
   An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.

   • “Anyway, she can’t have got much pleasure out of him. If it’s owt like the rest of him she’d need a winkle-picker to find it.” — 1982
2. •
   [before a noun] A style of boot or shoe with a severely pointed toe, fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.

   • winkle-picker toes; winkle-picker stilettos
3. •
   (UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.

   • the first piece of writing he had ever done [was] a starkly rhymed description of his boyhood as a winkle-picker on the Welsh coast — 1967