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cultivator Definition

cul·ti·va·tor (kul′tə vāt′ər)

noun

  1. a person who cultivates
  2. an implement or machine for loosening the earth and destroying weeds around growing plants

cultivator Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • soil: He was the son of William Knox, a peasant cultivator of the soil.
  • art: The other cortege, that of Mercury, is composed of honorable men, cultivators of the arts.
  • field: As a pious cultivator of the spirited field, he found abundant faith in a believing people.

Converse of object

  • shift: CULTURAL HERITAGE Hunter-gatherers and shifting cultivators have occupied the margins of the Ituri Forest for centuries.
  • use: The crop should be kept free of weeds by surface cultivations using a tractor-mounted cultivator between the rows and hand hoeing around the plants.
  • power: Powered rotary cultivators - these machines use cutting, uprooting and burial to kill the weeds.

Adjective modifier

  • small: The small proprietary cultivators found themselves isolated, and unable to defend their rights.
  • mechanical: This year, after several years of thought, we have decided to enlist the help of a mechanical cultivator.
  • rolling: Rolling cultivators used by some growers have tines that weed between the rows and rolling star-shaped tines to cultivate the sides of the ridges.
  • tined: Simba Horsch offer an extensive range of tined stubble cultivators called Terrano's available in working widths from 3m through to 12m.
  • rotary: The fertilizer should be well mixed into the soil, for example, with a rotary cultivator.
  • independent: The manor was constituted, and took the place of the old association of equal, independent cultivators.

Modifies a noun

  • drill: Could he be coming round about buying that cultivator drill?
  • ..: Cultivation Tools Spades, forks, hand trowels, hoes, rakes and cultivators...

Noun used with modifier

  • peasant: He was the son of William Knox, a peasant cultivator of the soil.
  • disk: Simba's name is synonymous with disk cultivators and the Solo and the X-Press are modern versions of this type of cultivator.
  • stubble: The new HE-VA TOP TILLER stubble cultivator is the tool for the large arable farmer requiring high daily work rates.
  • rice: Rice cultivation is the occupation of 89 percent of the Iban population ( two-thirds of the country's rice cultivators ).
  • soil: These vary from a brushcutter, hedgetrimmer, pruner, edger, strimmer, soil cultivator and power sweep.
  • land: They were essentially a class of land cultivators, who possessed small tenements, in which arable predominated over both meadow and pasture.