A grower, a planter.
1833. Your father, if I recollect, was a famous tobacco raiser.—James Hall, ‘The Harpe’s Head,’ p. 238 (Phila.).
1847.
| No little lily-handed Baronet he, | |
| A great broad-shoulder’d genial Englishman, | |
| A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, | |
| A raiser of huge melons and of pine, | |
| A patron of some thirty charities, | |
| A pamphleteer on guano and on grain. | |
Tennyson, ‘The Princess,’ p. 87. (N.E.D.) |
