Meaning of PLANTER
| Pronunciation: | | 'plantur
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- [n] a decorative pot for house plants
- [n] the owner or manager of a plantation
- [n] a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
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| | Synonyms: | | plantation owner |
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| | See Also: | | farmer, flowerpot, granger, husbandman, pot, sodbuster, worker | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Plant"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof
corn; a machine planter.
2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar
planter; a coffee planter.
3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the
first planters in Virginia.
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| | Related Terms: | | agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, Bauer, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, colonial, colonist, colonizer, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, homesteader, husbandman, immigrant, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, nester, peasant, peasant holder, picker, pioneer, plowboy, plowman, precursor, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, settler, sharecropper, sooner, sower, squatter, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman |
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