One who makes it his business to cultivate tea-plants. So Tea-planting.
1867. ‘Pips,’ Deserted District, in Lyrics & Lays, 113.
| Ride the planters up and down, | |
| Each one muttering with a frown, | |
| ‘Not a petticoat or gown, | |
| Woe is me, tea-planter.’ |
1888. J. Paton, in Encycl. Brit., XXIII. 99/1. Tea-planting has also been successfully established in Natal.
1897. Daily News, 19 June, 2/2. Japan must … abandon her primitive methods of tea-planting in small patches.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 736. A case that I saw some years ago in a tea-planter.
Mod. He is now a tea-planter in Assam.
