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ˈtea-ˌplanter
One who makes it his business to cultivate tea-plants. So ˈtea-ˌplanting.
1887Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 112 A Subaltern, or a Tea-Planter's Assistant, or anybody who..has no care for to-morrow. 1888J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 99/1 Tea-planting has also been successfully established in Natal. 1897Daily News 19 June 2/2 Japan must..abandon her primitive methods of tea-planting in small patches. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 736 A case that I saw some years ago in a tea-planter. Mod. He is now a tea-planter in Assam. |