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planter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Planter \Plant"er\, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who sows seeds," late 14c., agent noun from plant (v.). Mechanical sense by 1850. Meaning "proprietor of a cultivated estate in West Indies or southern colonies of North America" is from 1640s, hence planter's punch (1924). Meaning "a pot for growing plants" recorded by 1959.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor. 2 (context historical English) Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I. 3 A machine used for planting seeds. 4 A person who plants seeds, either by hand or by machine. 5 The owner of a plantation.
WordNet
n. the owner or manager of a plantation [syn: plantation owner]
a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
a decorative pot for house plants
Wikipedia
Planter may refer to:
- A flower pot or box for plants
- Jardiniere, one such type of pot
- Window box, another type of planter
- Sub-irrigated planter, a planting box where the water is introduced from the bottom
- A person or object engaged in sowing seeds
- Planter (farm implement), implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field
- Potato planter
- A coloniser
- Plantations of Ireland, 16th and 17th centuries
- Ancient planter, a colonist receiving one of the first land grants in Virginia
- New England Planters, settlers who moved to the Canadian maritime provinces which had been left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion
- Old Planters (Massachusetts), early settlers of Massachusetts
- A farmer
- Planter (American South), in the American antebellum South
- Church planter, a person engaged in creating a new Christian church
- Planters (company), American snack food company best known for its processed nuts and the "Mr. Peanut" mascot
- Union Planters, a bank in the United States
- Planters Development Bank or Plantersbank, a bank in the Philippines
- Planter's Punch, a cocktail
-
, a number of ships of the U.S. Navy
-
, a number of commercial steam ships
- Mine planter, a mine warfare ship of the early days of World War I
- Planters Hall, a historic place in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States
- Clarksdale Planters, a minor league baseball team in Mississippi, United States
- New London Planters, a minor league baseball team in Connecticut, United States
- Planters Pat Bradley International, a golf tournament
- Igor Planter, fictional eco-terrorist in the 2000-2004 manga Black Cat
- The Planter, a 1917 American drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and John Ince
Like a grain drill a planter is an agricultural farm implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field. It is connected to the tractor with a draw-bar, or a three-point hitch. Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows. Seeds are distributed through devices called row units. The row units are spaced evenly along the planter. Planters vary greatly in size, from 1 row to 48, with the biggest in the world being the 48-row John Deere DB120. The space between the row units also vary greatly. The most common row spacing in the United States today is 30 inches.
On smaller and older planters, a marker extends out to the side half the width of the planter and creates a line in the field where the tractor should be centered for the next pass. The marker is usually a single disc harrow disc on a rod on each side of the planter. On larger and more modern planters, GPS navigation and auto-steer systems for the tractor are often used, eliminating the need for the marker. Some precision farming equipment such as Case IH AFS uses GPS/RKS and computer-controlled planter to sow seeds to precise position accurate within 2 cm. In an irregularly shaped field, the precision farming equipment will automatically hold the seed release over area already sewn when the tractor has to run overlapping pattern to avoid obstacles such as trees.
Older planters commonly have a seed bin for each row and a fertilizer bin for two or more rows. In each seed bin plates are installed with a certain number of teeth and tooth spacing according to the type of seed to be sown and the rate at which the seeds are to be sown. The tooth size (actually the size of the space between the teeth) is just big enough to allow one seed in at a time but not big enough for two. Modern planters often have a large bin for seeds that are distributed to each row known as central commodity systems.
Usage examples of "planter".
Spaniard to allot him a sufficient quantity of land for a plantation, and on my giving him some clothes and tools for his planting work, which he said he understood, having been an old planter at Maryland, and a buccaneer into the bargain.
Harrison, an outspoken Virginia planter, six feet four inches tall and immensely fat, was a fervent champion of American rights who liked to say he would have come to Philadelphia on foot had it been necessary.
Antwon dropped off the wall and paced the peastone surface of the rooftop, poking at some of the planters Kay had started for the season.
Now, the cracked stone planters were planked over as tables, or else spell-sealed as vault space to preserve rare scrolls on arcane practice.
I supposed the gas and oil would be hauled along the road by tankers, transferred to ground tanks here and then rebottled in the drums for distribution to planters and farmers.
I landed on a slick surface of melted and recongealed gravel, which sent me sliding along into the stony bulk of what had once been a wooden planter filled with rose bushes.
Who would have recognized the brilliant colonel, who penetrated by the side of Montbrun the heart of the Grande Redoute, in the planter of forty-five, busy with his cotton and his sugar-cane, who made a fortune in a short time by dint of energy and good sense?
The Master, with many of the sailors, went on shore, taking one of the great pieces called a minion, and with the Planters drew it up the hill, with another piece that lay on the shore, and mounted them and a saller and two bases--five guns-- on the platform made for them.
The scaphoid, in addition to its displacement, is much compressed on the planter surface, being little more than one-half the width of the dorsal surface.
The Master urging that the Planters should explore with their shallop at some distance, declining in such season to stir from the present anchorage till a safe harbor is discovered by them where they would be and he might go without danger.
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers-- And all of them stood in the rain and sun, Getting rusted, warped and battered, For I had no sheds to store them in, And no use for most of them.
Now, Stede Bonnet was a planter of high reputation and religious character who, from some sudden and overpowering freshet of wildness in his blood, had given up everything in order to start off pirating in the Caribbean Sea.
The planters have thriven, and the cotton fields have spread themselves.
There had been other planters who had made the double mistake of incurring the enmity of their native labor and of living in unfortified houses.
Theta Virgo IV and been a wineberry planter as his father had wanted him to be.