cane cutter

English
A cane cutter in Jamaica

Noun

cane cutter (plural cane cutters)

  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.
    • 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.
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