corn-plantern.
U.S.
1. One who plants maize. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > grain > grain-grower
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cerealist1907
1832 Deb. Congress 9 Feb. 339 The corn planter and wheat grower understand their interests.
1833 Deb. Congr. 29 Jan. 1444 Let the corn planter ask himself if he is not willing to pay a higher duty on broad-cloth than on coffee, for a few years.
1834 H. Brackenridge Recoll. vii. 74 The arrival of Corn-planter Indians, on the bank of the Alleghany.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 2nd Ser. 104 One of a tribe [sc. the crows], of which the corn-planter has an aversion.
2. A drill for planting corn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills > drill for sowing corn
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check-rower1882
1839 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. xiv. 151 Some of them, under the name of corn-planters, are employed in planting Indian Corn.
1856 Engineer I. 14/1 Improvements in hand corn-planters.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 24 A petition, praying the Executive Committee to make a second trial of Cornplanters.
1948 Clarke County Democrat (Grove Hill, Alabama) 28 Oct. 3/2 Two-Row Corn Planter.
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