canecutter

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person employed to harvest sugar cane.

   • It was decided to calculate costs of voluntary labor beforehand to assure a "net” contribution to the harvest and that unions selected the most productive canecutters.
   • This mournful melody from Queensland tells of the woes and misfortunes of early canecutters.
2. 2

   A machine for harvesting sugar cane.

   • Harvesting, before the arrival of the mechanical canecutter, was performed by large numbers of workers wielding long knives.

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