Noun
One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. Nikola Tesla
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. Fred Allen
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. Simon Newcomb
The Confederate government increasingly molded its policies in the interest of the planter class. Eric Foner
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. Michael Pollan
The okra plant doesn't grow taller than its planter. African Proverb