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noun

Planter n.

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.

A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.

A movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes.

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Etymology of 'Planter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Planter" Quotes from Famous Books

... de Balboa had come from Spain to Haiti and settled down as a planter, but when (1510) an expedition was about to sail for South America to plant a colony near Panama, Balboa longed to join it. He was in debt; so lest his creditors should prevent his going, he had himself nailed up in a barrel and put on board one of ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... instances the cotton planter had done this, and once the farmers of the West, discouraged by low prices, had used corn for fuel. That, however, was done on a small scale. But to deliberately burn one hundred million dollars worth of property was almost beyond the ...

— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House

... cloth she did not take that bolt of cloth and wind it around us and say, 'Children, here are the clothes your father has sent you.' The woman has always done her full share of supporting the family. In the South under the old regime she bore more than an equal part of the care, for the planter could hire an overseer for the plantation work but the wife could not hire one for the ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... now try the right of the southern planter by the claims of Hebrew masters over their heathen slaves. Were the southern slaves taken captive in war? No! Were they bought from the heathen? No! for surely, no one will now vindicate the slave-trade so far as to assert that slaves ...

— An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South • Angelina Emily Grimke

... most full and complete book of the kind that has ever yet appeared. It is not a mere condensation from Encyclopaedias, Commercial Dictionaries, and Parliamentary and Consular Reports; but is the fruit of my own Colonial experience as a practical planter and of much laborious research and studious investigation into a class of ephemeral but useful publications, which seldom meet with any extended or enduring circulation—assisted, moreover, by ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

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