Cultivator
['kʌltɪveɪtə] or ['kʌltɪvetɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture).
Edited by Dwight--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature.
(n.) An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.
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Examples
- The depth to which the shares or cultivator blades work in the ground may be adjusted by a gauge wheel upon the draught beam, or a roller on the back of the frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A walking cultivator is when the operator walks and guides the machine with the hands as with ploughs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A riding cultivator adapted to work three rows has an arched axle to pass over the rows of the growing plants and cultivate both sides of the plants in each row. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Disk cultivators are those in which disk blades instead of ploughs are used with which to disturb the soil already broken. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Those workmen and their employers are properly the servants of the proprietors and cultivators. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- North of the Mason and Dixon line farming was practised mainly upon British or Central European lines by free white cultivators. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If worked between two rows they are termed single, and when between three rows, double cultivators. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Riding cultivators are known as sulky cultivators where they are provided with two wheels and a seat for the driver. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He tried to make a caste of the peasants and small cultivators, and to restrict them from moving from their holdings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the slave cultivators of ancient times gradually succeeded a species of farmers, known at present in France by the name of metayers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Ordinary ploughs are converted into cultivators by supplying them with double adjustable mould boards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The cultivators get a better price for their surplus produce, and can purchase cheaper other conveniencies which they have occasion for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Cultivators of the earth, because they labour for the subsistence of mankind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The second is the class of the cultivators, of farmers and country labourers, whom they honour with the peculiar appellation of the productive class. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Cultivators have names which indicate their construction and the crop with which they are adapted to be used. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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