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Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Planter

/plăn'-tẽr/ · Plant·er · IPA /ˈplæntə(ɹ)/
01 n. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
  1. 1.
    One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
  2. 2.
    One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
  3. 3.
    A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
  4. 4.
    a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes.