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cane cutter

noun

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  1. 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.

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