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A farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
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cultivator
Word definitions for cultivator in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cultivator is any of several types of farm implement used for secondary tillage . One sense of the name refers to frames with the teeth (also called shanks ) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly. Another sense refers to machines ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage 2 A person who cultivates
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cultivator \Cul"ti*va`tor\ (k?l"t?-v?`t?r), n. [Cf. F. cultivateur.] One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. --Whewell. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Many of these techniques of conservation have already been developed by cultivators and pastoralists themselves. ▪ Most lived in rural areas, where they eked out meagre livings as cultivators. ▪ Mr Burrows added cultivator tines ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, noun of action (in Latin form) from cultivate . As the name of an agricultural tool, from 1759.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: agriculturist , grower , raiser ] a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) [syn: tiller ]
Usage examples of cultivator.
The Incas took two-thirds for the state and for religion, and set apart one-third for the cultivators.
As Caufield describes them, the Lawa are shifting cultivators who live in settled villages and have been in the same place for many centuries.
There, too, was Pococurante, the epicurean and triple millionaire, who in a political country dared to despise politics, in the most aristocratic of kingdoms had refused nobility, and in a land which showers all its honours upon its cultivators invested his whole fortune in the funds.
They are impoverished cultivators and herdsmen who have a strictly graded religiopolitical hierarchy and tend to maintain a more closed community than other ethnic or religious groups.
Pencroft, he had sailed over every sea, a carpenter in the dockyards in Brooklyn, assistant tailor in the vessels of the state, gardener, cultivator, during his holidays, etc.
Nearly all the agriculturists, manufacturers and tradesmen of the day, little and big, are public enemies - farmers, tenant farmers, market-gardeners, cultivators of every degree, as well as foremen, shopkeepers, especially wine-dealers, bakers and butchers.
I gave him a chance to say something about my being late, but he just said, "Those cultivators have come.
What do you reckon the boll-weevils'll eat if you dont get those cultivators in shape to raise them a crop?
The work-gangs were following, catching any weeds the skimmer-blades of the cultivators missed.
Now that the nobles are driven out, the bourgeoisie in retirement, the large cultivators under suspicion, while animal necessities exercise their blind and intermittent despotism, the appropriate popular ministers consist of adventurers and of bandits.
Already many of our best cultivators are giving up their business, while others threaten to do the same in case these disorders continue.
At Tulle, the electors of the second class, almost all chosen from among the cultivators, and, moreover, catechized by the club, nominate for deputies and public prosecutor only the candidates who are pledged against rentals and against water privileges.
Oblige all the cultivators of the neighborhood to sell their wheat at Forges only, etc.
Letters of several mayors, district administrators, cultivators of Velizy, Villacoublay, La celle-Saint-Cloud, Montigny, etc.
Plain cultivators, taxed at 10,000 livres, have sixty men billeted on them.