planters

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plural of planter
church planters
plural form of church planter
planter
{n} one who sets or cultivates, a farmer
planter
1. A flower pot or box for plants2. Jardinière, one such type of pot3. A person or object engaged in sowing seeds4. Planter (farm implement), implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field5. A coloniser6. A person who owns or manages a plantation, or large farm or ranch
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Planters are people who own or manage plantations in tropical countries
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One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter
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a decorative pot for house plants the owner or manager of a plantation a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
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A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia
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A settler in Newfoundland, rather than a migratory fisherman, who supported himself through the inshore boat fishery
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a machine used for planting seeds
planter
a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
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{i} owner of a plantation; machine for sowing seeds; container to hold plants; window box
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the owner of a plantation
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decorative container usually rectangular, oblong or oval
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any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I
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A planter is a container for plants that people keep in their homes
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One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter
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a box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor
planter
the owner or manager of a plantation
planter
a person who owns a plantation
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A piece of equipment for seeding that is pulled behind a tractor The planter is used to seed coarser grain seeds such as corn, soybeans, and sunflowers Instead of the long seed box that a drill has, planters have individual seed boxes, one for each row the planter will plant Planters are often designated as 6-row or 12-row planters
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a person who operates such a machine
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a decorative pot for house plants
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After the invention of the cotton gin, southern planters again operated a profitable agriculture and accounted for a significant portion of the United States' exports Though they were only twelve percent of the slave-holding population, half of the South's labor force lived on these plantations (Fifty-five percent of slaves raised cotton; more than half of the slave population was owned by planters presiding over twenty or more slaves ) Planters, in fact, could only increase their production by increasing their investment in slaves: "To sell cotton in order to buy Negroes--to make more cotton to buy more Negroes " When cotton prices rose from their low of five cents a pound in 1844 to ten cents in 1850, planters threw everything they could into the occasion Many came out extremely wealthy, and with their wealth came power
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