a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
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a decorative pot for house plants
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Planter \Plant"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
4. a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes. [PJC]
Mr. Delvalle is a wealthy sugar planter from Panama's traditional oligarchy, known as the rabi blancos, or white behinds.
A long, cool drink at hand, I lay back in a rattan-woven planter's chair, the kind in which colonials in every tropical outpost from Calcutta to Kumasi have taken their ease.
Employees at an elegant mall have not been able to figure out why a duck chose a planter outside the complex to prepare for motherhood, but they're making her comfortable as she sits on her nine eggs.
Two police officers who heard Priscilla Jones screaming in the tree planter early Sept. 9 helped her give birth to a 3-pound, 5-ounce boy, police said.
Ms. James' research yielded the tale of Oscar J.E. Stuart, a Mississippi planter who tried to obtain a patent in 1857 for a labor-saving "double cotton scraper" invented by his slave, Ned.
About four years ago I mentioned Jane Tennant's collection of colonial-style planter's chairs, which cost Pounds 285 each.
Farnsley was a history buff who went through a "Confederate period" in the 1930s, when his normal dress was a broad planter's hat, a swallow-tailed coat, a brocade vest and a black string tie.
The builder of the house was a successful planter who owned up to 125 slaves and acquired 30 other properties including townhouses in Charleston.