Canecutter
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person employed to harvest sugar cane.
"It was decided to calculate costs of voluntary labor beforehand to assure a "net” contribution to the harvest and that unions selected the most productive canecutters."
- 2 a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands wordnet
- 3 A machine for harvesting sugar cane.
"Harvesting, before the arrival of the mechanical canecutter, was performed by large numbers of workers wielding long knives."
Example
More examples"It was decided to calculate costs of voluntary labor beforehand to assure a "net” contribution to the harvest and that unions selected the most productive canecutters."
Etymology
From cane + cutter.
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