| 单词 | planting attorney |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplanting attorney planting attorney n. now historical (in the Caribbean) the manager of a plantation or estate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > overseer > on plantation pen-keeper1704 planting attorney1832 1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 886/1 A Mr. Francis Fyall, (a great planting attorney, that is, an agent for a number of proprietors of estates, who preferred living in England, and paying a commission to him for managing in Jamaica, to facing the climate themselves). 1858 H. Bleby Speech on Results of Emancipation 23 One of those great planting attorneys, who had some fifty or sixty large estates under his care, made it his boast..after the act of emancipation came into force, that he made those estates pay well, because he cheated the people out of half their wages, by one method or another. 1956 H. G. de Lisser Cup & Lip i. 19 Arthur was earnest at his work as his uncle's planting attorney. 1995 K. M. Butler Econ. Emancipation vi. 106 Ellcock, Alleyne, and Forster, all family names of prominent planters or planting attorneys who were among the wealthiest in nineteenth-century Barbados. < as lemmas |
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