cane cutter
noun1
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.
- A college-educated Lenval wanted to know how so many white people come to speak so bad—low class and coarse as cane cutters.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 140:
- Related terms
- cane knife