Verb (used without object) : to transplant easily. From Dictionary.com.
A year or two since, a machine was invented and offered to the growers of the Connecticut valley, called a transplanter, of which we here give an engraving. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Some persons use what is called a transplanter, to enable them when they take up a plant, to remove it without disturbing the roots; but, as far as my own experience goes, I think these instruments are more troublesome than advantageous, and I prefer using a trowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
He added a few remarks about O'Brien's grandfather, the "transplanter"; but what annoyed the owner of Elixir most was Mulligan's remark that he had not seen the dog, but heard it was some new kind of German pug. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917] Reference
"transplanter" in our part of Ireland, his grandfather being the first of his branch to transplant himself here, and he did not then know much about the higher education of dog, though he is an admirable inspector of schools. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917] Reference
(Soundbite of newsreel) Unidentified Man #1: Gus Arnheim, transplanter (ph) to the world-famous Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [Historic L.A. Hotel Finds New Life As School Campus] Reference
'The Hindu' at Pappakudi after inspecting the paddy transplanter. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
This new four row vegetable transplanter can plant 6000 plants per hour with one person. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to In memory of Mother: Eat your vegetables part four] Reference
As per the system, the operator of transplanter grows nursery under the mat nursery method. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
As part of achieving the desired goals, both the departments have been popularising the use of transplanter among paddy cultivators. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Apart from ensuring efficiency in transplanting the seedlings, the transplanter also brings about economy in cultivation cost by eliminating wastage in the process of transplantation. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
RAMANATHAPURAM: Paddy transplanter, a machine which is touted as a viable alternative to offset the acute shortage of agricultural labourers, has been introduced in Ramanathapuram district for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
As against several manual workers toiling for several days for raising the nursery, watering, transplanting the nurseries, the paddy transplanter, an imported one, completes the transplantation of nurseries in an acre within 90 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
And here it may be noted that the charge made by most foreign critics who have busied themselves with Spenser, and perhaps by some of his countrymen, that he is, if not a mere paraphrast, yet little more than a transplanter into English of the Italian, is glaringly uncritical. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
191 For another account of the transplanter and the casuistical questions to which coffee gave rise, see my First Footsteps in East. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
On those occasions when the cord blood was needed, the defendants provided the blood to transplanters in satisfaction of their contractual obligation to ship the families’ cord blood samples to a transplanter upon direction. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Rice transplanter gaining popularity. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Rajasthan to launch "rabi campaign" for farmers] Reference
Scientists demonstrate rice transplanter. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Diary boom in capital of crackers] Reference
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