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CULTIVATEUR [6 records]

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Record 1 2025-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

A person who tills the ground, or cultivates a particular plant or crop.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Personne qui cultive, qui exploite une terre, en vue d'une production agricole.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos
  • Producción vegetal
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Record 2 2022-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cultivating and Tilling Equipment
  • Tillage Operations (Agriculture)
CONT

A cultivator is a machine that disturbs the top surface of the soil to either prepare the soil into a smooth, loose, aerated seedbed, [or] to kill weeds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Motoculteurs et motobineuses
  • Travaux du sol (Agriculture)
CONT

Un cultivateur est un instrument aratoire muni de dents adaptées à différents travaux de préparation du sol, comme la préparation des lits de semence ou le déchaumage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Motocultores y motobinadoras
  • Labores de cultivo (Agricultura)
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Record 3 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

cultivator: an item in the "Agricultural Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

cultivateur : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement agricoles» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

In many, if not all, sugar beet producing areas of the United States, a grower will not seed sugar beets until he has a binding purchase contract for his crop with a processing company or cooperative.

OBS

The term "grower". Hence "tobacco farmer" is normally used in conjunction with certain crops: "sugarbeet grower" and "tobacco grower" are examples. When so used, the term can be replaced by "farmer" and "tobacco grower" can be used interchangeably according to the Canadian Classification and Dictionary of Occupations, 1971.

Key term(s)
  • farmer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Agriculteur spécialisé dans certaines cultures industrielles (ex. : caoutchouc, cacao, café, riz, coco).

OBS

Le terme «planteur» est normalement utilisé par rapport à certaines cultures industrielles : «planteur de tabac», «planteur de betteraves» en sont des exemples. Dans ces cas, le terme peut être remplacé par «cultivateur». Ainsi, «cultivateur de tabac» et «planteur de tabac» sont interchangeables selon la Classification canadienne descriptive des professions 1971.

Key term(s)
  • cultivateur

Spanish

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Record 5 1984-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
  • General Hardware
  • Property Upkeeping
CONT

the long-handled cultivator with three to five adjustable teeth is in reality a modification of the hoe. (...) operated by pulling to loosen the surface of the soil and should never be used with a chopping motion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
  • Quincaillerie générale
  • Travaux d'entretien de la propriété
DEF

--instrument agricole pour donner des labours légers caractérisé par de nombreuses dents recourbées, disposées symétriquement, soit au bout d'un manche, soit sur un bâti à roues.

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
  • General Hardware
  • Property Upkeeping
DEF

Cultivator ... drawn by hand or horse and used principally for weed eradication.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
  • Quincaillerie générale
  • Travaux d'entretien de la propriété
OBS

Pour ameublir les sols compacts, aérer, écroûter la terre entre les lignes. Comprend 1,3 ou 5 dents en flèche, taillant meulé.

Spanish

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