planter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the owner or manager of a plantation
    plantation owner.
  2. noun a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
  3. noun a decorative pot for house plants

WordNet

Plant"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
  2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
  3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes.

Webster 1913