tea-plantern.
One who makes it his business to cultivate tea-plants.
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1887 R. Kipling Kidnapped in Civil & Mil. Gaz. 21 Mar. 3/1 A Subaltern, or a Tea-Planter's Assistant, or anybody who..has no care for to-morrow.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 736 A case that I saw some years ago in a tea-planter.
1911 N.E.D. at Tea-planter Mod. He is now a tea-planter in Assam.
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ˈtea-ˌplanting n.
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tea-planting1888
1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 99/1 Tea-planting has also been successfully established in Natal.
1897 Daily News 19 June 2/2 Japan must..abandon her primitive methods of tea-planting in small patches.
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