canecutter

noun2

1. •
   A person employed to harvest sugar cane.

   • 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
2. •
   A machine for harvesting sugar cane.

   • Harvesting, before the arrival of the mechanical canecutter, was performed by large numbers of workers wielding long knives. — 1995