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[ UK /kˈʌltɪvˌe‍ɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
  2. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

How To Use cultivator In A Sentence

  • Others, especially artisans, also frequently have implements such as plows and cultivators on offer. 1. Overview
  • A cultivator is also useful for working amendments such as compost or manure into the soil.
  • A ryot cultivating alluvial lands, and having no seed, can hardly ever repay his advances; but it does not follow that he has been a loser, for he, perhaps, could not value his time, labor, and rent altogether at half the amount; and as long as this system is kept within moderate bounds, it answers much better than private cultivation to the manufacturer, and has many contingent advantages to the cultivator. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • The lowly cultivator is viewed as indifferent to economic incentives because it is presumed that he is strongly committed to his traditional ways of cultivation. Theodore W. Schultz - Prize Lecture
  • Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. Thomas Jefferson 
  • The chief plants furnishing the drugs of commerce, and which enter largely into tropical agriculture, are the narcotic plants, especially tobacco, the poppy for opium, and the betel nut and leaf; as masticatories -- but there are very many others to which the attention of the cultivator may profitably be directed. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • One day he came down to see me with a couple of those hand cultivators that the ladies use in the garden.
  • However, on introduction of canal supply, cultivators generally assume that problems of deficiency are in the past, and when that proves to be not entirely the case unofficial diversions and tampering with control structures, also headend versus tailend problems, must be anticipated. Chapter 10
  • For small areas or around plants, working the lime into the soil with a spade or cultivator is preferable.
  • The distinction was basically about categories of people, founded originally on their occupations as cattle herders or cultivators.
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