Home › Words › C › canecuttercanecuttercanecutter means A person employed to harvest sugar cane.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, canecutter ranks #37,340 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom cane + cutter.nounA person employed to harvest sugar cane.e.g.“It was decided to calculate costs of voluntary labor beforehand to assure a "net” contribution to the harvest and that unions selected the most productive canecutters.” — 1981, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy of Socialist Cuba: A Two-decade Appraisal, page 62:A machine for harvesting sugar cane.e.g.“Harvesting, before the arrival of the mechanical canecutter, was performed by large numbers of workers wielding long knives.” — 1995, Glenn R. Conrad, Ray F. Lucas, White Gold, page 17:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.canegrower 72% match — A sugarcane grower vs canecutter →canefield 70% match — A field where sugar cane is grown. vs canecutter →caner 68% match — One who canes. vs canecutter →caneland 66% match — Land used for the growing of sugar cane. vs canecutter →canneryman 63% match — A man who works in a cannery. vs canecutter →canefruit 63% match — Fruit grown on canes, such as raspberries and blackberries. vs canecutter →canegrub 60% match — A grub that eats the roots of sugar cane. vs canecutter →coalcutterman 60% match — The operator of a coalcutter. vs canecutter →