cane cutter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.
Example Sentences
- "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."