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cane cutter

cane cutter noun: a worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.

cane cutter: a worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation
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Noun

cane cutter (plural cane cutters)

  1. A worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.
    • […] if the supply of canes slackened at the mill, the field driver was flogged for not flogging the cane cutters.1838, Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Chapter 3, “Antigua,” p. 46
    • A college-educated Lenval wanted to know how so many white people come to speak so bad—low class and coarse as cane cutters.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 140

Forms of cane cutter

pluralcane cutters

Questions about cane cutter

What does cane cutter mean?
Cane cutter means a worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.
What part of speech is cane cutter?
Cane cutter is a noun.
What is the plural of cane cutter?
The plural of cane cutter is cane cutters.

Words near cane cutter in the dictionary

  1. cane brakes
  2. cane carter
  3. cane carters
  4. cane corso
  5. cane corsos
  6. cane cutter
  7. cane cutters
  8. cane field
  9. cane fields
  10. cane fu
  11. cane grass

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