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Raiser

noun

A bridge partner who increases the partner's bid.

Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil. Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower.

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... great emphasis on the condition of the bowels during pregnancy, and particularly at farrowing. The special danger to be avoided is constipation. It is right here that Pratts Hog Tonic shows its great worth to hog raiser. It puts the digestion organs into healthy condition and the result is safe farrowing and a healthy litter which is not apt to suffer from ...

— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.

... it means the complete subjection of the cattle raiser. It means that competition will be stifled; that the cattle owner will be compelled to take what prices the buyers offer. It means that the incentive to raise cattle will be destroyed. It means the end ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

... up to you, my girl," replied her father, grimly. "Understand me. I've no sentiment about Dorn in this matter. One good wheat-raiser is worth a dozen soldiers. To win the war—to feed our country after the war—why, only a man like me knows what it 'll take! It means millions of bushels of wheat!... I've sent my own boy. He'll fight with ...

— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... graduates were found working on a sheep farm in Australia, one from Oxford, one from Cambridge, and the other from a German University,—college men tending brutes! Trained to lead men, they drove sheep. The owner of the farm was an ignorant, coarse sheep-raiser. He knew nothing of books or theories, but he knew sheep. His three hired graduates could speak foreign languages and discuss theories of political economy and philosophy, but he could make money. He could talk about nothing but sheep and farm; but he had made a fortune, while ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... has already been published in the United States, which is to repeat and show as emphatically as possible that the use of the reels at present employed for the filature of silk is entirely impracticable in our country, and that the raiser must sell his cocoons. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various

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