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cultivator|ˈkʌltɪveɪtə(r)|
Also 8 -er.
[n. of action in L. form f. med.L. cultīvāre to cultivate, prob. after F. cultivateur (15th c. in Hatzfeld).]
1. One who tills the ground, or cultivates a particular plant or crop; a tiller, husbandman, farmer, agriculturist.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl., Occas. Medit. iv. iii. 62 The Divine Son of the great γεωργὸς [margin That is, Cultivator of the Ground]. a1691Boyle (J.), Some cultivators of clover-grass. 1792A. Young Trav. France 490 An English cultivator, at the head of a sheep farm of three or four thousand acres. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 389 There are five classes of cultivators in Afghaunistaun.
2. fig.
a. One who cultivates an art, science, etc.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 239 A cultivater or supporter of arts or letters. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, 181 A restorer and cultivator of religion after the Egyptian manner. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages I. v. 176 The great cultivators of science and letters.
b. One who, or that which, develops or improves (the mind, etc.) by education and training.
1868Mill in Even. Star 10 July, To give people an interest..in the management of their own affairs was the grand cultivator of mankind. 1886Morley Pop. Culture, Crit. Misc. III. 32 The observant cultivator of his own understanding.
3. An agricultural implement for breaking up or loosening the ground, and uprooting weeds between the drills of crops.
1759tr. Duhamel's Husb. ii. i. (1762) 126 My alleys were plowed again with the cultivator. 1849Mech. Mag. L. 176 Dr. Newington's hand row hoe and cultivator. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan i. 23 An American ‘cultivator’..which simple plough..drawn by a single horse, accomplished as much as the labour of fifty men, according to the usual method of cultivating the vine with a hoe. |