encountered an indigenous people who were experienced cultivators of the soil as well as highly skilled craftsmen
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agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, farmer, grower, planter, tiller;
farmhand, field hand, gleaner, harvester, plowman, reaper;
gentleman farmer, sharecropper, subsistence farmer, tenant farmer, yeoman;
homesteader, nester [West];
: a person who prepares land for planting
: a tool or machine that is used to prepare the soil and kill weeds around growing plants
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