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cane cutter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.
   • 1838, Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Chapter 3, “Antigua,” p. 46, […] if the supply of canes slackened at the mill, the field driver was flogged for not flogging the cane cutters.
   • A college-educated Lenval wanted to know how so many white people come to speak so bad—low class and coarse as cane cutters. 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 140:

Forms

Coordinates

cane carter

Relateds

cane knife