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   Planter (?), n.
   1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, “a planterof corn; a machine planter.”
   
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   2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, “a sugar planter; a coffee planter”.
   
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   3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, “the first planters in Virginia”.
   
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   4. a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes.
   
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