cultivator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cultivate + -or, partly after French cultivateur.
Base: cultivate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: cultivators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: scarifier, scuffler (not always precisely differentiated; dialectal usage has varied)
As the crop gets bigger, the shank spacing on the cultivator will need to be adjusted accordingly.
The Cultivator, or Horse Hoe.—This is an instrument not as much known and used as it deserves and ought to be. It is adapted for operations between the plough and harrow, and at certain times is much better than either. It is half a plough, half harrow, and half hoe, and does all these operations conjointly. […] Now this is the time to use the cultivator. It ought, after a few days, to follow the harrow, and is much more useful than the plough, as well as a great saving of labour. It cuts as deep and pulverizes the soil as well. It tears up and brings to the surface the roots of grass which the plough only covers, and by adapting the width of the cultivator to the space between the rows of corn, it half hoes the corn at the same time, and does the whole work most admirably. When there is much grass growing with the corn, it is an extremely useful instrument, as it pulls it up by the roots and in a great measure destroys it. For the Fiorin or Quack roots, with which our soil too much abounds, it will be of great service, and it appears to me it will be the most effectual remedy for it of any instrument we have yet tried. Corn is much sooner dressed with the hand-hoe, by the half ploughing, half hoeing operation of the cultivator. The cultivator is likewise very useful for the raising of potatoes, and for stirring the ground between the rows of turnips; and where a clover lay has been turned over to put down to wheat, when the plough cannot be again resorted to for fear of disturbing the sod, this instrument may be used for a shallow ploughing, which it will do much better than can by any other mode be effected. Corn is now raised with much less labour than formerly. It was the custom to hand-hoe a crop two, and often three times, and this was always an expensive and tedious process. Hoeing is now often omitted entirely, and is seldom done more than once; and still there are heavier crops of corn raised now than formerly. […] -Dr. Beekman.
gloss: A person who cultivates.
pos: noun
examples: The cultivators were out among the row crops, keeping the weeds in check.
gloss: A person who cultivates.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: grower, planter, farmer
She was a devoted cultivator of roses and orchids.
Consider now the cultivators’ perspective. The dilemma facing them is presented statistically in Table III.1 which shows the relationship between the rural population and land use in Bastar from 1931 to 1991. During this period the population trebled while the area under cultivation increased by only 80%. The period from 1931 to 1951 was a period of relative land surplus. As the population increased, the forest land was encroached upon. The period from 1951, by way of contrast, was one of relative land scarcity. Encroachable forest land became scarcer and the farm holdings per household became smaller as more people were forced to live on the same area of land.
gloss: A person who cultivates.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: She was a wonderful cultivator of potential in her direct reports.
Related words: cultivation
Derived words: cultipacker
cultivatorship
Translations:
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒇽𒀳𒇲
roman: errēšum
lang: Finnish
word: viljelijä
lang: French
word: cultivateur
lang: Greek
word: καλλιεργητής
roman: kalliergitís
lang: Hindi
word: खेतिहर
roman: khetihar
lang: Indonesian
word: penanam
lang: Korean
word: 경작자
roman: gyeongjakja
lang: Polish
word: kultywator
lang: Polish
word: kultywatorka
lang: Romanian
word: cultivator
lang: Russian
word: культива́тор
roman: kulʹtivátor
lang: Swedish
word: odlare
lang: Telugu
word: కర్షకుడు
roman: karṣakuḍu