noun
cultivator
KUL-tih-vay-ter/ˈkʌltɪveɪtər/
A person or tool that tends land for growing crops.
The cultivator loosens the soil between rows of corn.
Etymology
The ending identifies the doer of cultivation: someone who tills the ground. The same name was later applied to a tool that breaks up soil, transferring the worker’s role to the implement.
In context
a horse-drawn cultivator its wooden yolk has been rubbed as smooth
More examples
- She uses a hand cultivator to remove weeds around the beans.
- Local cultivators grow rice in irrigated fields.
- The tractor pulls a cultivator through the field.
Forms
cultivator · cultivators
cultivate verb — To prepare and tend land for crops.
cultivation noun — The preparation and tending of agricultural land.