cultivator

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The rent paid for an ordinary tank by the cultivator is about one hundred rupees a year.

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  1. noun One who cultivates: an inveterate cultivator of beautiful gardens; a cultivator of valuable corporate contacts.
  2. noun An implement or machine for loosening the soil and destroying weeds around growing plants.

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  • During the term of his military service under Montcalm, Crevecoeur saw something of the Great Lakes and the outlying country; prior to his experience as a cultivator, and, indeed, after he had settled down as such, he "travelled like Plato," even visited Bermuda, by his own account. —  Letters from an American Farmer
  • I shall, in the chapter on Artificial Swarming, explain in what way, by the use of my hives, the stock of bees may be easily crossed, when a cultivator is too remote from other Apiaries, to depend upon its being naturally effected THE WORKERS OR COMMON BEES The number of workers in a hive varies very much. —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
  • The first weeding was done with the cultivator, and in the light alluvial soil of the clearing it was easy work even for a boy like me to use it alone. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
  • Unhappily for the cultivator, these gracious conformations belonged to a harsh and churlish soil. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot
  • After this he returns a little to each cultivator, and he sows it in the centre of the land on which crops are to be grown, while the priest keeps the remainder. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
 

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  1. = French cultivateur, Old French cultiveor, coutiveor, etc., = Spanish Portuguese cultivador = Italian coltivatore, from Middle Latin as if *cultivator, from cultivare, cultivate: see cultivate.
 

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/ˈkəltɪveɪtər/
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