Planter

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.

II. Planter ·noun One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

III. Planter ·noun A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.