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canecutters

canecutters is the plural of canecutter.

Meaning of canecutter

Noun

canecutter (plural canecutters)

  1. A person employed to harvest sugar cane.
    • It was decided to calculate costs of voluntary labor beforehand to assure a "net” contribution to the harvest and that unions selected the most productive canecutters.1981, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy of Socialist Cuba: A Two-decade Appraisal, page 62
  2. A machine for harvesting sugar cane.
    • Harvesting, before the arrival of the mechanical canecutter, was performed by large numbers of workers wielding long knives.1995, Glenn R. Conrad, Ray F. Lucas, White Gold, page 17

Questions about canecutters

What is canecutters the plural of?
Canecutters is the plural of canecutter.

Words near canecutters in the dictionary

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  2. canebrakes
  3. canebreak
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  5. canecutter
  6. canecutters
  7. caned
  8. caned it
  9. Canedo
  10. Canedos
  11. canefield

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