cultivator

[Eng. cultivat (e); -or: Fr. culti vat eur; Sp. & Port. cultivador; Ital. cultivatore.] A. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-1527.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To till; to prepare for crops; to manure, plow, pulverizers, spiked harrows and rollers, horse-hoes, harrow, sow, mow, or reap land. 2. To raise by cultivation. IMG:content-1528.png:[blocks in formation] intellectually by study, application, and attention; the practice of such means as are likely to enlarge or refine any art or study; culture; a devoting or Cultivation is applied either to persons or things; civilization is applied to men collectively, refinement to me individually; we may cultivate the mind or any of its operations, or we may cultivate the ground or anything that grows in the ground; we civilize nations; we refine the mind or the manners." (2) He thus discriminates between cultivation , tillage , and husbandry : " Cultivation has a much more comprehensive meaning than either tillage or husbandry. Tillage is a mode of cultivation that boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; shovel-plows, and some other implements. The e ential idea of cultivation is of course broader still, as it comprehends all the means of tillage, which would include plows, the dominant implement in the art of husbandry. The term cultivator, in this country, also embraces specifically two implements which are used in tending growing crops. These are: (1) The implement specifically known as a cultivator, having a triangular frame set with teeth or shares, and drawn by one horse, which walks in the balk between the rows of corn, potatoes, or other plants. The animal is hitched to the apex of the frame, and the implement is guided by a pair of handles at the rear. (2) Single and double shovel-plows, which are used for precisely the same purpose, but are known as plows. [SHOVEL-PLOW.) The cultivator is an improved harrow. ( Knight .) cultivator-plow, 8. A plow used in tending crops, such as a shovel-plow, a double shovel-plow, . cŭl-trāt-ěd, cŭl-trāte, a . [Lat. cult ratus , from culter a knife.] Shaped like a pruning-knife, and sharp edged, straight on one side and curved on the other.