Synonyms:
planter, plantation_owner
Meaning: the owner or manager of a plantation
Usage examples
"There's something strange in all this," pursued the planter, as Pluto shuffled out of the sala.
"Clip, clip," came the sound of the planter, as Abram's dear old figure trudged up the hill. "Chip!
"Very strange Henry not being here to his breakfast!" remarked the planter, for about the tenth time.
I was preparing to surmount the barbed-wire fence again, when the planter returned and halted for another chat.
As he would have himself said, any greenhorn could do that. The young planter's horse had gone over the ground at a gallop.
So Tom argued with himself that it was an immense advantaged for Roxy to have a master who was pleased with her, as this planter manifestly was.
This observation appeared to be more particularly pointed at the planter and his nephew; as the tracker, on making it, glanced furtively towards both.
Could the planter have read my thoughts just then he would perhaps have been angry with himself, and pretty certainly he would have been angry with me.
As several minutes passed without his coming in, the planter quietly observed that it was rather strange of Henry to be behind time, and wonder where he could be.
The fifth president of the United States was a native of the grand Old Dominion, being born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, April 28, 1758. Like his predecessor, Madison, he was the son of a planter.