[
UK
/plˈɑːntɐ/
]
[ US /ˈpɫæntɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫæntɝ/ ]
NOUN
- the owner or manager of a plantation
- a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
- a decorative pot for house plants
How To Use planter In A Sentence
- The central theme of Sugar and Slaves is the rise of the big slave-owning sugar planters who completely dominated their island societies by the late seventeenth century.
- The planter behind is filled with fragrant vines; two ‘Royal Cape’ plumbagos in red pots flank the front posts.
- Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
- The alliance of South and West - Georgia planters and Illinois sodbusters - that had dominated American politics since Jefferson's day splintered, then collapsed.
- Various row arrangements can also be created by seeding wheat with corn-soybean planters equipped with feed cups or 24-cell plates.
- On the one hand, planters have been depicted as perennial hotspurs - hard drinking, fast-living men whose hair-trigger tempers demonstrated little foresight and generated even less systematic thought.
- These simple maintenance tasks keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter.
- The shallow planting resulted from the planter not adequately cutting through heavy corn and soybean residue and properly placing the seed in the furrow.
- Hanging planters also make a good home for anything that will trail and spill over, such as ivies and creeping phlox, especially if the planter is hanging above eye level.
- Further uphill is the planter's house, transformed into an interpretation centre built on the remains of a stone quarry discovered in 1966.