cane cutter
English
A cane cutter in Jamaica
Noun
cane cutter (plural cane cutters)
- A worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.
- 1838, Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Chapter 3, “Antigua,” p. 46,
- […] if the supply of canes slackened at the mill, the field driver was flogged for not flogging the cane cutters.
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Twelve, p. 140,
- A college-educated Lenval wanted to know how so many white people come to speak so bad—low class and coarse as cane cutters.
- 1838, Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Chapter 3, “Antigua,” p. 46,
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.