[f. TRANSPLANT v. + -ER1.]
1. One who transplants. Also attrib.
1611. Cotgr., Transplanteur, a transplanter.
1755. Johnson, Transplanter, one that transplants.
1827. Steuart, Planter’s G. (1828), 240. The failure and decay of the Top (the great opprobrium of Transplanters) is primarily to be ascribed to the entire want of skill in the preservation of these fibrous roots, on which the Tree mainly depends.
1852. Meanderings of Mem., I. 21. So thence uprooted with transplanter care, In other soil it scents another air.
2. An implement or contrivance for transplanting.
1828. Webster, Transplanter,… 2. a machine for transplanting trees.
1855. Delamer, Kitch. Gard. (1861), 16. The transplanter is a tool with handles at one end, and a couple of semicircular blades at the other, which, when closed, form a hollow cylinder.
1909. Cent. Dict. Suppl., Transplanter, a horse-power machine used in setting out tobacco or other field plants.
