(n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
(n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
(n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his father was a rubber planter.
(2) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(3) Use bigger planters combining many plants together in a large volume of compost.
(4) Planters Peanuts Planters introduced the Mr Peanut trademark figure after it was submitted by a schoolboy in a company-sponsored contest in 1916.
(5) In the middle of one gallery is a giant garden planter, fashioned from a truck tire and cast in glowing orange resin.
(6) She revealed that she was descended from a prominent 17th-century Barbadian planter, though she knew very little of him beyond his name and the parish in which he had owned hundreds of acres and enslaved peoples.
(7) But there’s a lot you can do with paint, and planters and stones from old bridge projects.
(8) Women are in a difficult position as both planters and weeders of maize and as caretakers of the ill AIDS patients.
(9) WINNING TIP: Lela's Taverna, Kardamyli, Peloponnese Overlooking the old port in this pretty village, Lela's has a terraced dining area shaded by a vine-covered pergola, with planters tumbling bright red geraniums.
(10) During her time in South America, she travelled around the Dutch colony, sketching local animals and plants but also criticising the treatment of indigenous people and black slaves by Dutch planters.
(11) Margaret Beckett, former foreign secretary What we already knew: Tried to claim £600 for "the supply of plants for hanging baskets, tubs, pots, planters, pouches and garden", and another £711 for "labour and materials for painting of summer house, shed and pergola" on her Derbyshire constituency home while also living in a grace an favour home in London.
(12) Dear Planters Peanuts, At a time when the government has been rightly condemned for the number of millionaires and public schoolboys in the cabinet, I was frankly appalled to see the elitist way in which you market your product.
(13) In Study 2, first- through fifth-grade children were given the task of estimating the likelihood that a bug would fall on a pot containing a flower when presented displays of planters containing either 2, 3, 4, or 5 pots with flowers, and 6, 8, or 10 pots total.
(14) On neurological examination, Parkinsonism, bucco-lingo-masticatory dyskinesia and bilateral extensor planter reflex were present, but tetany was not observed anywhere.
(15) It has been a curse of coffee planters ever since it appeared in east Africa 150 years ago.
(16) "We want to change the community mindset so that mining isn't the only focus of income – there's agriculture, plantations, other jobs to do here," says Untung, 54, from an office so huge it encompasses four sofas, various planters and orchids, and a flatscreen TV.
(17) If you want something more unusual, try a specialist website such as Waterbuttsdirect.co.uk , Simplywaterbutts.co.uk or Greenfingers.com where you can choose from standalone and wall-mounted decorative butts that look like (or are) wooden barrels, terracotta pots, stone walls, metal planters – even Roman columns – in a wide variety of sizes, materials and prices.
(18) The food court looks attractive, fringed by herb-filled planters made from more reclaimed rollercoaster.
(19) Tour guides will wax lyrical about the gracious lifestyles led by the planter families who lived in them.
(20) In 6 patients reporting contact with primrose positive tests were obtained with flowers and leaves of this plant, four of five tobacco planters tested who had eczematous lesions of the hands, aave also positive results of the test with tobacco leaves, and in three children reporting contact with butter-cup changes were observed resembling dermatitis pratensis bullosa.
Plantocracy
Definition:
(n.) Government by planters; planters, collectively.