Definitions for planter

planter plant·er

Spelling: [plan-ter, plahn-]
IPA: /ˈplæn tər, ˈplɑn-/

Planter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 266 anagrams from letters in planter (aelnprt).

Definitions for planter

noun

  1. a person who plants.
  2. an implement or machine for planting seeds in the ground.
  3. the owner or manager of a plantation.
  4. History/Historical. a colonist or new settler.
  5. a decorative container, of a variety of sizes and shapes, for growing flowers or ornamental plants.

Origin of planter

First recorded in 1350-1400, planter is from the Middle English word plaunter. See plant, -er1

Examples for planter

His torch will be at the threshold and his knife at the throat of the planter.

The first has to do with the raw cotton, as it goes from planter to mill.

Sir, every Southern planter is not more truly a slave-holder than Abraham.

Every Southern planter may have his slave-household baptized.

He was the son of a Cajun planter and had lived in the district he represented for most of his life.

Soon the planter militia broke the slave line and the slaughter began.

How can a planter sell the cotton which he has picked, when there are no buyers at the moment?

The planter's life did not long satisfy him and finally he became a priest.

God has thus given to the Southern planter an absolute monopoly.

Like all his hundred-odd slaves, Madison inherited Jennings from his father, a wealthy Southern planter.

Word Value for planter
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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