gardenn.
/ˈɡɑːdn/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrdən/ 1.
a. A piece of ground, usually enclosed, where flowers, fruit, or vegetables are cultivated. In later use chiefly (esp. British): a piece of ground adjoining a building (esp. a private property), often with grass, flowers, trees, etc., and generally used for recreation; cf. yard n.1 3.flower-, fruit-, kitchen-, market, rose, strawberry, walled garden, etc.: see the first element.Recorded earliest in a surname.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun]
leightonc950
orchardOE
garden1279
yard1390
vergera1400
smelling cheat1567
garden ground1577
gardenage1600
smeller1610
viridary1657
viridariumc1660
gardening1682
greenery1783
1279 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 846 Willielmus Attegardin.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1395 (MED) Iudas..wente him out anon In-to a gardyn and heng him-sulf vpon an hey treo.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1022 (MED) Sche goþ aboute into þe gardyn for to gader floures.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 738 Yif me a plante of thilke blessed tree And in my gardyn planted shal it be.
1415 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 232 (MED) Fro the corner howse..vntill the garden.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 118 The knight..yede abowte in the gardin, and soute the clewe, & fonde it.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 53/2 My lord you haue very good strawberies at your gardayne in Holberne.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) ii. xx. i. 323 I comprehend therefore vnder the word ‘garden’, all such grounds as are wrought with the spade by mans hand.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 82 Ile fetch a turne about the Garden . View more context for this quotation
1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1731) I. 174 The Use of Gardens seems to have been the most ancient and most general of any sorts of Possession among Mankind.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 30 To dig a small garden to sow some lettices, and other sort of sallading.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 176 The garden..very much resembles prince Eugene's garden at Vienna.
1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 164 The flowers of that garden sweet Rejoiced in the sound of her gentle feet.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) iii. 191 Eastern gardens..are not flower gardens, nor private gardens, but the orchards, vineyards or fig enclosures round a town.
1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. ii. 36 A wall picture of an ancient Egyptian garden has been preserved.
1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 2/1 We take great pride in our garden, and make a specialty of fall planting.
1952 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 26 The air..smells now of the garden, the pines, the weeds and wildflowers.
1995 Country Living May 106/3 I've used it myself in the garden to protect tomatoes and other vegetables from sun scald.
2015 Church Times 5 June 18/3 I remember..the strong aroma of Madonna Lilies, just cut from our garden, pervading the air.
b. A region of great fertility. Chiefly in the garden of ——. the Garden of England: a name given to Kent, known for its abundance of fruit and crops, and sometimes to other similarly fertile counties or regions. the Garden of France: a name given to the traditional French province of Touraine. [After Middle French jardin de France, French jardin de la France (16th cent.; 15th cent. applied to the Loire valley).]
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [noun]
garden1592
oasis1613
1592 J. Eliot Survay France 29 Tours is one of the welthiest towns in Fraunce, as well in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the Soile, which is termed the garden of Fraunce.
1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes sig. M2 If the Principality were duly imploied, & each acre handled according to some plots begun, I would hope to liue to see Wales called the Garden of England.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 4 I am arriu'd for fruitfull Lumbardie, The pleasant garden of great Italy. View more context for this quotation
1675 J. Beale Let. 17 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 280 Sr H Platts..taught ye people..to make of worst land in England, to be ye Richest, from ye West to ye Garden of England.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 5 Aug. (1965) I. 250 The whole Country appears a large Garden.
1762 J. Campbell Acct. Spanish Settlem. in Amer. ii. vi. 106 This province is so pleasant, as well as fruitful, that it may be justly called the garden of America.
1822 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 25 Sept. (1941) II. 380 This part of the Vale of Clyde is called the garden of Scotland. I should rather name it the fruitery.
1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget i. vii. 31 Kent's my county, but even in the garden of England they can't grow finer roses than them.
1943 G. E. Mannering Eighty Years N.Z. 82 Taranaki had been justly called ‘The Garden of New Zealand’ from the early times of settlement.
1985 D. Simpson Last seen Alive iii. 32 Sturrenden is a busy market town in the heart of the Garden of England, as Kent is often called.
2008 R. Sissons Coach Load Chaos viii. 97 William was down to breakfast early on Tuesday morning. The weather was perfect in the Garden of France.
c. In singular and plural. An enclosed park or grounds ornamented with plants and trees, or with other displays or exhibits, used for public recreation or entertainment. Often with the type of display, entertainment, etc., specified.beer, botanical, pleasure garden, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > public gardens
garden1612
spring garden1612
botanic garden1662
villaa1684
botanical garden1704
1612 For Colony Virginea Britannia 14 What man or woman soeuer, shal ro bany [corrected to rob any] garden, publike or priuate, being set to weed the same..shall be punished.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Pp4 A fair Councell-house for affairs of State, and many publick gardens for disport and exercise.
1755 E. F. Haywood Invisible Spy III. viii. 259 There were no Operas,..no Plays, no Masquerades to entertain him; but the gardens of Ranelagh, Vaux-Hall, and Mary-le-Bon.
1771 R. Sanders Compl. Eng. Traveller 132/1 It is almost incredible to think what numbers of people frequent these gardens, where they pay one shilling each for admittance.
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 73/2 Rivalling these imperial structures are the gardens of St. Petersburg.
1891 Garden & Forest 8 Apr. 157/2 The park commissioners of the city are to..construct and maintain the drives through the garden.
1903 Sunday Reading for Young 213/1 As the railings round the [bear] pit have since been raised, no one visiting the Gardens need feel at all afraid.
1988 R. Turnbull Fisher's World: Canada 31 Also pleasant for a visit is the Public Gardens, on Spring Garden Road, a tree-shade bourne of flowerbeds, lawns and ponds.
2013 M. Bivona Traveling around World 45 Some special attractions in the gardens were an extraordinary 350-tree Bonsai Garden..and a 500-year-old juniper tree.
d. slang. The female genitals or pubic hair. Cf. lady garden n. at lady n. Compounds 2e.Quot. 1640 shows earlier application to the female body in an erotic context.
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the world > life > the body > hair > pubic hair > [noun]
pubes1569
garden1732
fud1771
pubic hair1836
moss1847
rug1893
maidenhair1908
pussy hairc1910
bush1922
man-hair1928
thatch1933
chuff1967
pube1967
1640 T. Carew Poems 85 I'le seize the Rose-buds in their perfum'd bed, The Violet knots, like curious Mazes spread O're all the Garden, taste the ripned Cherry, The warme, firme Apple, tipt with corall berry.]
1732 Ladies Delight 7 It..gets the Owner many a Farthing, For Ladies love it in their Garden.
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 118/2 Garden, the female pudendum.
1941 in G. Legman Limerick (1969) 1 I've been sadly let down By the tool of a fool in a garden.
1984 B. McConville & J. Shearlaw Slanguage of Sex 86/1 Garden.., the female sexual parts. This charming piece of slang is still current.
2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Style section) 35 (header) How does your garden grow? Not everyone has embraced the Brazilian.
2. figurative or in figurative context. A thing or person likened to a garden, esp. in terms of attractiveness or fruitfulness.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 232 (MED) A strang heg uor to loki þane gardin of þe herte.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 65 Þe saule truly þat boyth is sweyt be schynynge of consciens, & fayr be charite of endles lufe, cristis gardyn may be cald.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) Prol. 3 This boke is cald garthen closed, wel enseled, paradyse ful of all appils.
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 378 Since your garden is blasted, your vinedage ended,..your primetime finished.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 321 Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are Gardiners. View more context for this quotation
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 278 Adorning the proposed Theam with the most especial and chief flowers of the Garden of Rhetorick.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband Prol. sig. A3 The Garden of the Mind To no Infestive Weed's so much Inclin'd As the Rank Pride.
1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 58 The wall of salvation, which protects the garden of the church from thievish men.
1811 I. Mitchell Alonzo & Melissa II. xiii. 132 Why is the fairest flower in the garden of innocence and purity, blasted like a noxious weed!
1868 J. Smith Way to True Greatness 44 The heart is a garden, and speech is its produce.
1908 V. Lee Gospels of Anarchy vii. 225 A statement which is damaging to the fruitful garden of human nature.
1992 Esquire Feb. 121/2 Bush was well-known as a worm,..a weedy wort in the garden of politics.
2013 M. Harts Divinely Enough 39 You are a garden. You are made up of all of the beauty that nature can give.
3. With the. Chiefly with capital initial. (A name for) the school of philosophy founded by the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–270 b.c.), which was based in the garden of his house just outside Athens. See Epicureanism n. 1. Now historical. [After a Hellenistic Greek use of ancient Greek ὁ κήπος the garden (compare quot. 1603, also in οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν κήπων, lit. ‘those of the gardens’, used by Diogenes Laertius as a name for the school); compare also classical Latin hortī Epicūrī ‘the gardens of Epicurus’ (Cicero).]
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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in ancient Greece
schoolOE
academya1382
academia1542
lyceum1579
garden1603
stoa1603
Athenaeum1728
Academe1751
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 669 My brother Lamprias, who..esteemeth more the walking galleries of the Peripateticks, and the schoole of the Stoicks, called Lyceum, than he doth the garden of Epicurus [Fr. le verger d'Epicurus; Gk. τοῦ κήπου].
1686 H. Grenfield God in Creature 108 (heading) The principal Tenent of the Garden; that is, of Epicurus and his Followers.
1791 W. Anderson Philos. Anc. Greece viii. i. 440 It was..proved, by the contentment, the unanimity, and cordiality that prevailed among the disciples of the Garden, that men of contemplation might be sufficiently intelligent and happy.
1827 T. Moore Epicurean i. 4 The sectaries of the Garden had, ever since the death of their founder, been accustomed to dedicate to his memory the twentieth day of every month.
1867 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 164 [Neither] the Porch, the Garden, nor the Academy.
1911 A. E. Taylor Epicurus 20 This will account for the attitude of aloofness steadily maintained by the society of the 'Garden' towards the great indigenous Athenian philosophical institutions.
1972 J. P. Lynch Aristotle's School 120 In the Garden Epicurus required that all members disavow the subjects pursued in the Academy.
2011 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 131 269/1 Articles by Epicurean philosophy experts..covering the main aspects of the school's life and..the history of the Garden.
4. In plural. A street, square, etc., with or near gardens, esp. one in which the buildings overlook private communal gardens. Frequently used with prefixed word as a proper name, in London and (by imitation) elsewhere.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > other groups of buildings
place1585
gardens1642
nest1787
1642 A. Cooper Speedy Post 5 A Cornish man that lived lately in Baldwins Gardens nere Grayes Inne lane in London.
1729 J. Pote Guide des Etrangers 10 Queensborough and General Wade's Houses in Burlington Gardens.
1807 Times 10 July 1/2 Lost, from Spring Gardens, Charing-cross, on Thursday, a black curly coated poodle dog.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lx. 539 ‘Gardens’ was a felicitous word not applied to stucco houses with asphalte terraces in front, so early as 1827.
1918 Times 22 July 9/2 Sir John and Lady Simon were returning to their home in Airlie-gardens, Notting-hill-gate, in a taxi-cab.
1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 78 St. Cuthbert's, Philbeach Gardens, Kensington, another Anglo-Catholic ‘hot-house’.
2006 Times 8 July (Nexis) 22 We were there, strolling past Courtfield Gardens and stepping into the tastefully designed reception.
5. With the and capital initial. Short for Covent Garden, a district in London, used esp. with reference to the market or the Royal Opera House (formerly the Theatre Royal) situated there. Also short for Hatton Garden, a street and area in London, with reference to the jewellers' shops situated there.The theatre in Covent Garden became the Royal Opera House in 1892.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of
vintrya1456
steelyard1474
tower hillc1480
city1556
Bow-bell1600
row1607
gate1723
east end1742
Mayfair1754
garden1763
warren1769
west?1789
the Borough1797
west end1807
Holy Land1821
Belgravia1848
Tyburnia1848
Mesopotamia1850
South Kensington1862
Dockland1904
South Ken1933
Fitzrovia1958
square mile1966
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 415 A fashionable coffee-house in the neighbourhood of the Garden.
1805 C. L. Lewes Mem. II. 25 Getting acquainted with Messrs. Bridgewater and Hippisley at a tavern in the Garden.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 81/2 Not only is the ‘Garden’ itself all bustle and activity, but the buyers and sellers stream to and from it in all directions.
1884 J. Payn Some Lit. Recoll. iv, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 257 She [sc. Miss O'Neill] talked of ‘the Garden’ and ‘the Lane’ and was very fond of recitation.
1890 Tit Bits 29 Mar. 389/2 The cut stones are chiefly sold to the large dealers in the ‘Garden’.
1922 Jewelers' Circular 14 June 55/3 The Garden here points out that good trade in America is always reflected in increased purchases of diamonds there.
1972 New Scientist 13 Jan. 100/1 Just a few hundred yards from the Garden sits Centre Point.
2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xvi. 270 From roadside attraction to roadside attraction, between the British Museum.., Sadler's Wells, the Garden.
6. Baseball. colloquial. The field (see field n.1 10b); spec. the outfield. Frequently with modifying word. Now somewhat rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > outfield
centre field1835
left field1857
left1867
garden1868
backfield1911
outside1913
1868 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 15 Aug. ‘Centre garden’ as the boys call the field.
1908 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 225 The ball will come down in..some defenseless section of ‘left garden’.
1915 C. Mathewson Catcher Craig xxii. 291 The Blues' centre fielder..almost into left garden for the ball.
1927 Amer. Speech 2 255/2 The ‘garden’ or ‘outer garden’ is the outfield, the ‘inner garden’ is the infield.
1943 J. G. T. Spink et al. Baseball Guide & Rec. Bk. Gloss. 103 Outer garden, outfield.
2012 Cordele (Georgia) Disp. (Nexis) 28 Mar. Harvey holds forth in the middle of the outer garden unless he's on the mound.
7. North American.
a. Usually with capital initial. In the name of a large public hall or sports arena.
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1875 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Star 8 June 2/4 A number of them..visited Gilmore's Garden or Transformation Hippodrome, the latest city sensation.
1879 Daily Free Press (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) 12 Sept. Hess..has secured the Madison square garden for the last week in September.
1931 Lethbridge (Atlanta) 12 Nov. 13/1 Close to 15,000 people..will be on hand tonight for the official opening of the new Maple Leaf Gardens, which has a seating capacity of 12,500.
1989 J. J. Costonis Icons & Aliens iv. 72 The end-state issue..is whether the Boston Garden merits designation as a landmark.
2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 24 My real life was full of headlining shows at Wembley and Madison Square Garden and platinum records, and Grammies.
b. Usually with capital initial and the. As a shortening of the name of a large public hall or sports arena.
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1879 Washington Post 10 Mar. 1/4 At 12:45 o'clock the garden was so crowded that orders were given at the box-office to sell no more tickets.
1915 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. (Sports section) iii. 4/8 Coffey has been..preparing for his bout with Gunboat Smith, tomorrow night at the Garden.
1950 Billboard 20 May 10/1 I will not televise anything out of the Garden while I still have my sanity... Television has ruined minor league baseball.
1984 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 8 Feb. The National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs..regularly sell out the Garden.
2008 D. Abrams Jay-Z i. 14 I don't know of another artist who could sell out the Garden in a day.
Phrases
P1.
Garden of Eden n. (a) Christian Church the abode of Adam and Eve at their creation (cf. Eden n.1 1); (b) a place or region of surpassing beauty or delight, or of supreme bliss; a paradise (in later use chiefly attributive). [After German Garten Eden (1523 in Luther, or earlier) and its model Hebrew gan-ʿēḏen. At Genesis 3:23 the Vulgate and Septuagint have post-classical Latin paradisus voluptatis and Hellenistic Greek παράδεισος τῆς τρυφῆς respectively, lit. ‘paradise of pleasure’ (see paradise n.).]
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise
paradiseOE
Eden1382
Garden of Eden1535
Garden of God1535
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness
heaveneOE
Edena1225
paradise?a1300
Garden of Eden1535
eutopia1553
happy land1562
Arcady1590
Hesperidesa1592
Elysiuma1616
God's own country1807
lotusland1856
Adamless Eden1876
summerland1895
Shangri-La1941
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. D Then the Lorde God put him out of the garden of Eden [Ger. garten Eden].
1560 Bible (Geneva) Ezek. xxxvi. 35 This waste land was like the garden of Eden, and these waste and desolate and ruinous cities were strong, and were inhabited.
1608 J. Denison Three-fold Resol. iii. §9. 218 We are now entring into the garden of Adonis..which the world makes her garden of Eden.
1752 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 454 A garden of Eden, from which..my sister-in-law long ago gathered passion-fruit.
1791 T. Beddoes tr. J. K. A. Musäus Pop. Tales of Germans II. 266 The new-married couple spent their honey-moon..in mutual happiness and innocent enjoyments, like the first human pair in the garden of Eden.
1804 Weekly Entertainer 25 June 505 Turn our land, which is before them like the Garden of Eden, into a waste howling wilderness.
1871 W. Denton Common Sense Thoughts Bible (ed. 4) 33 The writer of the garden-of-Eden story in Genesis commences the mischief.
1918 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales (1923) 120 Garden-of-Eden picnics for weeks an' weeks.
1990 H. Atkins tr. K. S. Guthke Last Frontier v. 378 They represent..the state of sinlessness in the Garden of Eden before the temptation by the serpent.
2006 Palm Beach Life Jan. 117/1 They have increased awareness of the gardens to the general public..by the very magic of viewing the juxtaposition of plants and glass in a rich Garden of Eden setting.
P2.
Garden of God n. = Garden of Eden n. at Phrases 1.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise
paradiseOE
Eden1382
Garden of Eden1535
Garden of God1535
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxxi. A All the trees in the pleasant garden of God [Ger. garten Gottes], had envie at hym.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xv. 29/1 It lieth seated in a vale most wholsome and rich, hauing some hils also..from whose Tops the prospect of the whole is..rather like a Paradise and Garden of God.
1663 F. Philipps Antiq. Præ-emption & Pourveyance for King v. 309 They called England..the Granary of the Western world, a Paradice of Pleasure and Garden of God.
1793 Morning Chron. 13 Apr. This admired and envied island,—in this verdant garden of God!
1860 M. Reid Odd People 37 This vast Garden of God [sc. the valley of the Amazon] is yet unexplored by man.
1877 W. W. Fowler Women of Amer. Frontier viii. 174 The country through which they pass deserves the title of ‘the garden of God’.
1928 T. H. MacBride In Cabins & Sod-Houses v. 35 These..moved each his own way across the garden of God, each attended by his shadow.
1978 M. Haran Temples & Temple-service Anc. Israel xiii. 254 The cherub who dwelt in the garden of God lived and roamed in the garden and apparently also tilled it.
2001 Ploughshares Winter 76 The young Indian called out, ‘yours is as beautiful as the garden of God’.
P3. to cultivate one's (own) garden: to attend to one's own affairs. [After French cultiver son jardin (1760 in the passage translated in quot. 1789, with allusion to use in an (ostensibly) literal context in Voltaire's Candide: compare quot. 1759).]
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > lack of social communications or relations [verb (intransitive)]
to keep quarterc1550
uncompane1589
to have nothing to say to (also with)1603
to live in (also within) oneself1644
to keep oneself to oneself1748
to fight shy1778
to cultivate one's (own) garden1789
to hoe one's own row1832
1759 tr. Voltaire Candid xxx. 132 All that is very well, answered Candid, but let us take care of our garden [Fr. il faut cultiver notre jardin].]
1789 T. Holcroft tr. Frederick II Let. in Posthumous Wks. Frederic II VIII. ccxcii. 7 You do well to follow the advice of Candide, and to be satisfied with cultivating your garden [à cultiver votre jardin].
1841 Foreign Missionary Chron. Mar. 82 To cultivate our garden at home before going to the vast outfield of the world.
1872 J. Fiske Class-Room Taine 137 Capable..of deciding with Candide, that the best thing one can do is ‘to cultivate one's garden’.
1933 L. Strachey Characters & Comm. i. ii. 13 The precept ‘Il faut cultiver notre jardin’ has come down to the degenerate descendants of Candide in the form of ‘Have an eye to the main chance’—a very different exhortation. The twentieth century has learned to cultivate its garden so well that it makes a profit of ten per cent.
1955 R. M. MacIver Pursuit of Happiness iv. 35 We must cultivate our own garden and find the joy of doing it in our own hearts.
2003 J. Little in J. Little & M. Mentzer High-Intensity Training Mike Mentzer Way Preface p. x Mentzer preferred to work on his own terms; he..published his own books, produced his own audiotapes, and forever cultivated his own garden.
P4. colloquial. everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy): the situation is perfectly satisfactory; all is well.First used in the title and refrain of a music hall song (see quot. 1898), written for and popularized by the British music hall singer Marie Lloyd (1870–1922).
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase]
to rightsc1330
all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839
(as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855
(as) right as rain1891
everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898
she'll be right1947
1898 J. P. Harrington Everything in Garden's Lovely! (sheet music) And ev-'ry-thing in the gar-den's love-ly!
1899 Evening News (London) (Football ed.) 30 Sept. 2/5 The players are a happy and contented lot of lads, and give not the slightest trouble, so little wonder that ‘everything in the garden is lovely’.
1924 C. Mackenzie Old Men of Sea v. 71 The financial outlook's lovely. It's lovely, Mr. Marsham. Yes, everything in the garden's lovely, as Marie Lloyd used to sing.
1965 I. Nairn & N. Pevsner Sussex (Buildings of Eng.) Introd. 16 Not that everything in the Sussex garden is rosy. As the figures might indicate, the coast is almost gone.
1977 M. Frayn Alphabet. Order (rev. ed.) ii, in Alphabet. Order & Donkeys' Years 140 And now you've got it straight, and everything in the garden's lovely.
1992 Independent 29 Dec. 4/8 I do not want to give the impression that everything in the garden is rosy. It isn't.
2009 Guardian 4 July (Nexis) 12 If we insist on telling children that everything in the garden is lovely, we're doing them a disservice.
P5. colloquial. to lead (a person) up the garden (path): to lead (a person) on; to entice; to mislead, deceive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [phrase]
to blear the eyesc1325
to play mock-holiday with?1558
on a lock1598
to put the change upon (also on) (a person)1658
to play false1680
to draw (pull, spread) the wool over (a person's) eyes1839
to lead (a person) up the garden (path)1923
to pull a fastie1931
to take (someone) for a sleigh ride1931
to pull a swiftie1945
1923 Register (Adelaide) 22 Oct. 10/6 He is a brilliant ground tumbler, and his partner..assists him... She sang, ‘She's leading you up the garden path’, and ‘Oh, John’.
1925 E. Mannin Sounding Brass i. viii They're cheats, that's wot women are! Lead you up the garden and then go snivellin' around 'cos wot's natcheral 'as 'appened to 'em.
1957 I. Murdoch Sandcastle ii. 29 I'm going to lead her up the garden. I've got her thoroughly foxed so far.
1963 Times 29 Jan. 12/6 I made these confessions to lead the police up the garden path.
1993 D. Coward tr. G. de Maupassant Grove of Olives in Mademoiselle Fifi & Other Stories 219 She left out the bit about how she led you up the garden path about who was the father.
2011 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Nov. 36 I'm not going to put forward a position now, lead students up the garden path and change my mind later on.
P6. garden of remembrance: see remembrance n. Phrases 2.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1a).
a. With the sense ‘of, belonging to, or situated in a garden’, as garden alley, garden hedge, garden rail, garden seed, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 202 The grete tour..Was euene ioynant to the gardyn wal.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 569 To make a gardyn hegge [L. sepes hortorum].
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth i. xvii. 32 (heading) For the Garden seedes, to be employed as well before as after the sowing.
1592 H. Kinder tr. L. Lemnius Sanctuarie of Saluation xliv. 142 Walkings abroad in the open aire, which a man may haue in garden alleys [L. hortenses areae], and in vineyards.
1621 G. Mourt Relation Plant. Plymouth (1865) 82 This day some garden Seeds were sowen.
1696 M. Pitt Acct. Ann Jefferies 15 There came over the Garden-hedg of a sudden six small People, all in green Clothes.
1733 W. Bohun Declar. & Pleadings 297 One Garden-Door, and 20 Perches of Posts, Pillars, and Garden-Rails.
1770 Boston Gaz. 12 Mar. 4/3 (advt.) Broad Winsor, broad White Pole, dwarf yellow and dwarf speckled Beans, with a general Assortment of Garden Seeds.
1846 Knickerbocker Mag. 28 144 The Doctor stood looking over the garden rails when one of the ‘seven wise men’ of the village passed by.
1874 Aldine 7 112/3 He passed into the garden-alley, where the shade lay deepest.
1934 Pop. Sci. Sept. 72/1 This replica of an old-fashioned well makes an unusual garden ornament.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands xiv. 161 In cultivation it [sc. box] is a well-known garden hedge and a favourite shrub for topiarists to fashion into fancy shapes.
2015 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 7 Apr. 9/1 Children were given donated..garden seeds to encourage them to plant bee-friendly habitats.
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garden bed n.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. v. D His chekes are like a garden bedd [Ger. wurtzgertlin], where in the Apotecaryes plante all maner of swete thinges.
1881 D. G. Rossetti King's Trag. in Ballads & Sonnets (1882) 128 The rose..Couched on the happy garden-bed, In the summer sunlight glows.
2005 Grow your Own Dec. 17/1 Seeds should be sown straight into a container or garden bed.
garden bench n.
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1730 London Evening-Post 12 May (advt.) There is also to be sold..Garden Benches, and several other Things without Doors.
1863 W. S. Landor Meliton & Lily in Heroic Idylls 5 Sit on this garden-bench and hear a song.
2013 D. Pitt Edith's Return to Devon v. 26 Although it was a confined space, it allowed room for a garden bench, a bird table and a raised bed of flowers.
garden border n.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 129 The least Flower that prancks Our Garden borders, or the common Banks [Fr. qui le champ plus desert].
1862 ‘G. Hamilton’ Country Living & Thinking 19 They hummed with the bees in the garden-borders.
2012 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 16 Aug. 23 It'll add fabulous splashes of colour along the edges of any sunny garden border or path.
garden bower n.
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1609 P. Erondelle tr. M. Lescarbot Noua Francia ii. xvii. 233 Cabins..like garden bowres [Fr. des berceaux de jardin], compast as it were with high pales of trees ioined one neere the other.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 49 In the Garden-bower the Bride And Bride-maids singing are.
2015 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 July 51 The native honeysuckle..has twined around garden bowers since early medieval times.
garden creeper n.
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1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening 1245/1 Several cottages..every one accompanied by its garden-creepers.
1908 I. Pfleiderer Glimpses into Life Indian Plants 82 A common garden-creeper with a white, inflated calyx and a crimson corolla.
2004 J. Dodd Party Ideas 39 Suspend trails of ivy or other garden creepers in the doorway.
garden door n.
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1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 20 Gardeyn dore.
1765 I. Bickerstaff Maid of Mill ii. viii. 40 Why did you not clap too the garden-door..before the young lady got in?
2001 C. Storr If Game (2002) 31 Opposite to him was a green garden door, set in one of the walls.
garden earth n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > organic soil > mould > layer
garden mould1573
garden earth1577
staplea1722
staple-soil1847
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth i. v. 8 Dungyng the Garden earth, with the branches and leaues of trees, is of the skilfull Gardeners very much disalowed.
1851 Flower, Fruit & Kitchen Garden 289 To garden earth, therefore, of a middling texture should be added some strong clayey, or loamy soil.
2014 M. Edmond Barefoot Years 6 A narrow strip of garden earth grows pansies.
garden fence n.
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1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Lamentations Ieremiah ii. 3 in Paraphr. Divine Poems His Tabernacle He with Violence Hath now demolish't, like a Garden Fence.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 131 I suppose, never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high.
2009 Guardian 17 Nov. 20/5 Flowers skipped over garden fences to colonise disturbed land.
garden flower n.
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1576 R. Peterson tr. G. della Casa Galateo 111 Suche kinde of people be rather, in maner, like nettles and burres, amongest good and sweete garden flowers [It. le herbe dolci & domestiche de gli horti; Fr. les herbes douces, & domesticques des iardins].
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxi. 216 The garden-flowers perfumed the air with delicious odours.
2015 Leek (Staffs.) Post & Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. 32 Clark won Best in Show with a vase of beautiful garden flowers.
garden fruit n.
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?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aviv Gardeynes frutes is there muche gretter than in our landes of Europa.
1747 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 507 Herbs Cabbages and such garden fruits as she shall desire.
1997 Home Flair July 119/3 The most popular garden fruitwas the apple, in second place were pears.
garden lawn n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > lawn or grass-plot
grassOE
arbourc1380
harbour1505
green plot1566
grass plot1599
grass work1664
platband1725
lawn1733
garden lawn1771
short-grass1826
pelouse1853
1771 A. Young Farmer's Tour E. Eng. I. vi. 300 A gravel walk waves around it through a stripe of garden lawn very prettily varied by new plantations.
1845 Zoologist 3 1056 Those pests, that raise such unsightly balls of earth upon garden-lawns.
2003 T. Litt Finding Myself 64 Out the back door and zinging straight across the garden lawn went the terrified streak of a cat.
garden plant n.
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1575 E. Hake Commemoration Raigne Lady Elizabeth sig. Cv Wee become of the wilde olyues the true garden plants.
1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner v. xlv. 237 Of this phaseolus..more species, than of any other garden plant we have transmitted to us from foreign parts.
2006 Wildlife News May 7/1 A woodland shrub with a heavy perfume that was extensively collected..for use as a garden plant.
garden shed n.
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1809 Times 6 Oct. (Sales by Auction) A garden shed, alcove seats.., and other effects.
1959 Home Encycl. 221 There are two principal types of garden shed: the lean-to and the span-roof.
2013 Guardian 12 June 12/1 The garden shed, beloved of writers, musicians, inventors and in some cases even gardeners.
garden soil n.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xliv. 715 The Mulberie tree reioyceth in the garden soyle, and other hoate and fat manured places.
1848 Cultivator 5 213 I..potted it in common garden soil.
2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Mar. 32 There are three weedy daffodil wisps poking through my garden soil.
garden space n.
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1835 Hort. Reg. 1 Nov. 409 Suppose the area or garden space to be small, one great object would be to shut out by shrubbery the boundaries.
1939 War Illustr. 29 Dec. 535 An Anderson shelter erected in a kitchen because there is no garden space available.
2005 S. Solomon Gardening when it Counts vi. 146 The intensivists say that putting vegetable rows far apart is a waste of garden space.
garden tree n.
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1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes ii. i. f. 80v/1 Not onely men..but also the hege, & gardeine trees [Sp. los arboles..domesticos]..procure to contynew their kynde.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iii. 46 Like garden-trees, they seldom shew fruit.
1996 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 10/1 A steppes eagle..was recovered after being spotted in a garden tree.
garden vegetable n.
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1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner ii. ix. 68 Cabbage, collyflowers, and other garden vegetables.
1841 N.Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. 2nd Ser. I. 152 The Netherlanders..have introduced every kind of garden vegetables.
2006 Independent on Sunday 23 July (Review Suppl.) 35/1 A salad of garden vegetables is a pretty dish.
garden weed n.
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1626 T. Fuller Serm. preached in St. Paul's Ed. Ded. sig. A3v These Transgressions and Iniquities, which like Garden-weedes will spring vp in a sun-shine after a storme.
1868 A. Gray Field, Forest, & Garden Bot. 69 The commonest garden weed, sometimes used as a pot-herb.
2011 C. M. Andrews Matter of Degree 348 I vented my personal frustrations and disappointment on the garden weeds.
c. With the sense ‘for use in a garden’.
garden cart n.
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1772 W. Bailey Advancem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce I. xix. 110 This shovel contains about one garden-cart full of earth.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 192 He stopped his little garden-cart at the door of a small cottage.
1866 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 21 Aug. 146/2 Among the numerous implements and machines in use.., there is none..more in request at the present season than a garden cart.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 July (Gardening section) 6 This great value garden cart with tipping function will prove to be an invaluable asset in your garden.
garden fork n.
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1706 tr. L. Liger Compl. Florist in tr. F. Gentil Le Jardinier Solitaire 153 The Figure of a Garden Fork. This is of use for spreading and disposing the Dung upon the Beds.
1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Mar. 87/3 If they will use the garden fork, and turn the soil up full fork deep..it will put the soil in excellent condition.
2014 M. Horsfall Austral. Garden Rescue 22/1 Loosen the dry soil with a hoe or mattock and aerate it with a garden fork.
garden hat n.
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1843 Illustr. London News 22 July 64/2 (advt.) Fancy bonnets..Garden hats.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxviii. 246 In her simple garden-hat.
1967 E. Taylor Second Thursday iii. 39 Anna's garden hat..lay at the bottom of the steps.
2015 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 29 May c c 21 Dapper gentlemen and older women wearing garden hats enjoy shows like Chelsea.
garden hoe n.
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1750 S. Martin Ess. upon Plantership (ed. 2) i. 25 So fixed as to cut all weeds an inch beneath the surface, in the same manner as the Dutch garden-hoe above-mentioned.
1881 Rep. Indian Affairs 3 I distributed among these people six hundred field and garden hoes.
2004 F. M. Bradley Projects Birder's Garden 118/1 Turn the top layer of mulch with a garden hoe or rake.
garden hose n.
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1826 Aurora & Franklin (Philadelphia) Gaz. 9 May 70 feet of garden hose.
1883 E. W. Nye Baled Hay 207 Use benzine..cautiously with whitewash brush and garden hose.
1995 Canad. Living June 49/1 Regularly scrub your deck..; use a garden hose to rinse.
garden rake n.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11v Clipping sheares, Leauers, Presses, Rulers, Garden Rakes [L. rastelli], Hammers.
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xvi. 83 A Man with a Garden-rake raked in Cole-seed all over it.
2012 A. England Backyard Farming 63 The garden rake is heavy but moves easily over fresh-tilled soil.
garden scissors n.
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1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 202 Young tender plants..will be easily cut in great quantities with a pair of Garden Sizzers.
1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) V. 433 It turned out to be only the clinking of a pair of garden-scissars.
2014 K. Brauning How We Fall xi. 139 I picked up the garden scissors and snipped off a handful of ripe beans.
garden shears n.
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1578 in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 46 Item one pare garthing sheres.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 45 Garden shears..amputate by a draw-cut like a knife.
2013 National (Nexis) 8 Mar. You may also wish to invest in a pair of garden shears for keeping hedges, creepers and larger shrubs in good shape.
garden spade n.
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1546–7 Inventory of Thomas Marsar in C. Cross York Clergy Wills (1984) I. 76 Item a sithe and ii forkes, a mocke forke and a garthynge spaide.
1744 in Maryland Hist. Mag. 21 243 6 good Well Steeled Gardin Spades.
2009 L. Spilsbury Dig, Plant, Grow 26/1 Most annual weeds will pull out fairly easily, or you can use a garden spade.
garden tool n.
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1574 R. Scot Perfite Platforme of Hoppe Garden 34 You must (with your Garden toole) vndermine them round about, tyll you come neare to the principall rootes.
1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve xii, in Poems (new ed.) 99 She'll find my gardentools upon the granary floor.
2007 Collect it! Jan. 51/2 Encouragement for small gardeners came in the shape of child-sized garden tools.
garden umbrella n.
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1864 Daily Express 6 July 2/3 Her Majesty desired that a specimen of the new garden umbrellas should be forwarded to Windsor.
1907 Army & Navy Co-operative Soc.: Rules & Price List 238/3 Garden Umbrella..with brass jointed stem, 6 ft. long..with spike to screw into the ground.
2007 M. Blair Dells xvii. 125 Shoe's parents sat in the shade of a garden umbrella in the back yard.
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garden court n.
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1656 By Commissioners for Charitable Uses (single sheet) At his chamber in Grayes-Inne, in the Garden Court up the six stone Steps.
1756 tr. M.-A. Laugier Ess. Archit. iii. 164 This little alley..serves as a communication with the garden court.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Nov. (Central ed.) w15H/1 (advt.) Spacious family home! Beautiful landscaping, garden court & brick paver walkway.
garden croft n.
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1756 A. Langford Catal. Demesne Lands Duke of Powis Lot 2..An extraordinary good Brick and Tiled House..Part of Church Yard Field Meadow..Garden Croft, Pasture.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxii. 48 Look in a garden-croft when a flower privily growing [etc.].
2007 H. French & R. W. Hoyle Char. Eng. Rural Society 211 The nearest the land market had to this sort of small change were the cottages and garden crofts.
garden field n.
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1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2266 The South-side of Catania, where wells had been digged for watering their Garden fields.
1837 J. E. Murray Summer in Pyrenees II. 85 His own particular moulin, in which he grinds the produce of his garden-field.
1997 Jrnl. Irish Archaeol. 8 116/1 These farmsteads were engaged in intensive mixed farming.., with arable crops being cultivated in small garden fields.
garden island n.
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a1614 P. Nichols Sir F. Drake Reuiued (1626) 38 Wee sayled in towards the Citty, and let fall our Grappers betwixt the Iland and the maine, right ouer against the goodly Garden Iland.
a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil (1768) 89 Our old willows..particularly some in the Garden-Island in St. James' Park.
1987 Crossroads 3 69 Men have utilized the potential riches of nature to create a garden island.
garden islet n.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 95 Till through Elysian garden islets..The boat of my desire is guided.
1931 Med. Hat (Alberta) News 7 Mar. 5/4 On the rustic wall of a little garden islet is a line from Keats.
2000 K. Wine Forgotten Virgo 202 It thus seems reasonable to identify the house..where Alcidon meets his Laura with Petrarch's garden islet.
C3. Objective.
garden design n.
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1718 S. Switzer Ichnographia Rustica III. Index at M Method of working Garden-Designs.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 167/2 Mr. Edwin L. Howard..spoke on garden design, illustrating his talk with crayon sketches.
2014 Church Times 25 July 17/1 A key element of garden design is achieving a mix of vertical, horizontal, and rounded elements.
garden designer n.
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?1700 Adam Armed 4 The Company propose immediately to Incorporate..Garden Designers.
1870 F. J. Scott Art beautifying Suburban Home Grounds ix. 81 If..there is any skillful garden designer within reach, we advise, unhesitatingly, his employment.
2010 Ideal Home May 166/4 Canny garden designers often frame a beautiful feature to draw attention away from an eyesore.
garden-loving adj.
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1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 74 Let me praise the garden-loving maid.
1851 Beck's Florist 243 They are purchased by persons having garden-loving friends at home.
2001 J. C. Culver & J. Hyde Amer. Dreamer 21 The house..had a sizable acreage, which greatly pleased Harry's garden-loving wife and son.
garden-watering n.
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1818 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XXXVIII. at Watering Plants The common modes of applying water have been spoken of in considering the general practice of garden-watering.
1896 Daily News 27 July 4/3 The period of supply could be extended if the consumers would only be careful..to abstain from garden-watering.
1998 Town & Country Planning 67 124/4 More garden means more garden-watering.
C4. Instrumental, as garden-girdled, garden-surrounded, etc.
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1854 Spectator 16 Sept. 977/2 London might become a pure and wholesome garden-surrounded city.
1858 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 62/2 And many a garden-girdled city showed Her pillared piles and streets of palaces.
1918 House & Garden Nov. 38/1 Down past the garden encircled house of the Lady-Who-Calls-Her-Flowers-Children, and turn to the right.
1969 L. Carter Beyond Gates of Dream iii. 27 How much vaster is our great Meliopolis than..garden-girdled Tyre.
2011 P. Schultz 1,000 Places to see before you Die (ed. 2) 372/1 His garden-surrounded lakeside cottage..is a popular pilgrimage site.
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a. attributive, denoting varieties of plants cultivated in gardens, esp. for culinary use or ornament, as garden cumin, garden gilliflower, garden mint, etc.Some compounds of this kind are treated at the second element, as garden lettuce, garden orache, garden parsley, etc.
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1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (new ed.) sig. D.iij Et calaminta, the gardyn mynt.
1551 W. Turner New Herball 83 The roote of the gardyn Gelouer is good agaynst the plage.
1606 W. Ram Little Dodeon sig. S2v For to dry a moyst stomake... Garden Madder roote pund and layd to.
1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 14 The Garden Parsnips provoke lust, and nourish as much and more too, than any root ordinarily eaten.
1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. ii. 78 Caryophyllus Hortensis... Garden Gilloflowers.
1715 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 243 Its Root or lower Leaves, in Shape, resemble Garden Honesty.
a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil (1768) 533 He mentions the Pinus, which he calls Culta, meaning thereby the Garden pine, to distinguish it from the Sylvestris.
1838 Belfast News-Let. 29 May 1/4 Take a large handful of garden thyme..and boil it in a pint of the best white wine vinegar.
1871 Church of Eng. Mag. 20 May 322/2 In the passion-flower the seed is contained in a pulpy hood; in the lunaria, or garden honesty, there are two plates as a defence.
1903 Jewish Encycl. IV. 383/2 The domestic or garden cumin.
1964 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 24 July 7 The wild form of the common garden parsnip is the cause of many cases of skin poisoning.
1998 P. Chapman 1999 Good Curry Guide 377 Cooked with massala sauce and fresh garden mint.
2010 A. Titchmarsh Flowering Shrubs 105/3 Popular and widely cultivated, garden thyme is often one of the first herbs grown by beginner gardeners.
b. In the names of plants of this kind.See also garden bean n.† garden clover n. Obsolete (in form garden claver) blue fenugreek, Trigonella caerulea (family Fabaceae), an annual herb having toothed, lanceolate leaves and pale blue flowers, cultivated, esp. in mountainous areas of southern Europe, for its edible seeds and leaves which have a mild fenugreek flavour.† garden coral n. Obsolete Cayenne pepper, Capsicum annuum; the fruit of this plant.† garden ginger n. Obsolete any of several plants usually known as dittany or dittander, spec. Lepidium latifolium, Origanum dictamnus, Dictamnus albus; (also) the root of D. albus.† garden globe n. Obsolete rare a French variety of apple having a green skin flushed with red. Now called Francatu.† garden rod n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) goldenrod (genus Solidago).† garden sperage n. Obsolete asparagus, Asparagus officinalis.† garden succory n. Obsolete either of two herbaceous plants of the genus Cichorium, chicory ( C. intybus) and endive ( C. endivia).† garden trefoil n. Obsolete any of several herbaceous flowering plants having trifoliate leaves, esp. creeping wood sorrel ( Oxalis corniculata) and blue fenugreek ( Trigonella caerulea).
garden balsam n. †(a) blue fenugreek, Trigonella caerulea (obsolete); (b) an annual flowering plant, Impatiens balsamina (family Balsaminaceae), native to South-East Asia and widely cultivated as a garden plant, having thick, soft stems, serrated leaves, and pink, red, purple, white, or variegated flowers; cf. balsam n. 8.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 1195 The Gardiners and herbe women in Cheapside commonly call it [sc. Trifolium odoratum], and know it by the name of Balsam, or garden Balsam.
1789 J. Miller Illustr. Sexual Syst. Linnæus II. 80 Impatiens Balsamina. Garden Balsam.
1879 S. Hibberd Familiar Garden Flowers 73 The garden balsam is a tender annual of rapid growth..with showy flowers of various shades of white, red, rose, and crimson.
1961 Plant Physiol. 36 1/2 Plants of the garden balsam (Impatiens balsamina L.) were grown in the greenhouse in gravel with daily watering.
2003 C. Harstad Got Shade? xiii. 328 My Aunt Ruth loved to augment her perennial border with Garden Balsam each spring.
garden basil n. basil, Ocimum basilicum.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxi. 239 The garden Basill [Fr. le Domestique, Du die Tamme] also is of two sortes, one great, the other small.
1674 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis (ed. 2) Epist. sig. A4 Some in old times..thought Garden-Basil (that I suppose answers to Plinie's Ocimum) would grow the sooner and better, if it were sown..with reproaches and evil speaking.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus May 16 Most People stroak Garden-Basil, which leaves a grateful Smell on the Hand.
1894 J. C. Sawer Odorographia II. 152 The mint-like garden basil, with large flowers and green or purple stems.
1979 Washington Post va11 Bush basil (Ocimum minimum) is smaller than the common garden basil (Ocimum basilicum) and has much smaller leaves.
2013 M. Marchese & K. Flottum Honey Connoisseur 187 Fresh garden basil, shredded.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.ij Lotus vrbana..may be named in english gardine Clauer or gardine Trifoly.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxxvii. 496 Turner calleth Lotus vrbana in English, Garden or Sallet Clauer: we may call it sweete Trefoyl, or three leaued grasse.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §493 They make it a Peece of the wonder, that Garden Clauer will hide the Stalke, when the Sunne sheweth bright.
1710 W. Salmon Botanologia II. 1166/1 (heading) Of Trefoil Sweet: or, Garden Claver.
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1748 J. Browne & J. Hill tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Drugs (ed. 4) I. vii. ix. 125/2 Guinea Pepper, or Garden Coral [Fr.Corail de Jardin]..is a red Pepper, whereof there are three Sorts.
1789 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 6) ii. i. 262 Chyan Pepper. The plant which bears this pod is sometimes raised in our gardens; its proper name is capsicum...Some call it garden-coral.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Garden coral, the Capsicum annuum.
1923 Board of Trade Jrnl. 29 Mar. p. iv/2 This category includes..pimento of other varieties of capsicum annuum having the burning taste and qualities of garden coral.
garden cress n. (also †garden cresses) a type of cress widely cultivated for its leaves which have a tangy peppery flavour, Lepidium sativum (family Brassicaceae).Also called town cress.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > cress
cressa700
town cresseOE
fen-cressc1000
well-cressOE
nasturtiumOE
watercressc1300
garth-cress?14..
watercress?a1450
women's meadwort?a1450
garden cressa1500
peppergrass?a1500
nosewort1563
nosesmart1589
water-rocket1605
nosewort1608
well grassa1646
cresson1657
water grass1708
tongue-grass1726
poor man's pepper1738
marsh-rocket1739
passerage1879
a1500 Med. Recipes (Sloane 405) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 116 (MED) Gardeyn cresse sede.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 58 Garden Cresses..are sowed both in ye spring, and at the fall of the leafe.
1664 W. Drage Physical Nosonomy 311 Garden-Cresses in Broath, or a Decoction of them in white Wine..both dissolve Blood already clottered, and also hinders it from coagulating in any part of the Body.
1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 202 This is a very elegant Plant, its lower Leaves being deeply cut, finer than the common Garden Cress.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 304 Garden Cress..mixed with the young leaves of mustard..is the most esteemed of all..salads.
1967 Washington Post 25 Nov. c5/6 For a pungent flavor try growing some garden cress indoors.
2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 10435/2 Whole Lepidium sativum plants (garden cress) maintained in water containing 1% ethanol.
garden cypress n. (a) lavender cotton, Santolina chamaecyparissus (now rare); †(b) sea wormwood, Artemisia maritima (obsolete).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort
mugworteOE
artemisiaOE
mugweeda1400
motherwort1440
matricary1523
French wormwood1548
holy wormwood1548
sea-mugwort1548
sea-wormwood1548
tree wormwood1548
Roman wormwood1551
southernwood1577
garden cypress1578
mouse-wort1607
field southernwood1739
sage1805
hyssop1807
sage-bush1807
appleringie1808
absinth1841
sage-brush1850
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > of the Mediterranean or Southern Europe > Santolina or lavender cotton
lavender cotton1530
lavender of Spain1530
garden cypress1578
Santolina1578
berg cypress1905
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xix. 29 Some call it in English Lauender Cotton, and som Garden Cypres.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 941 There is another Santonicum differing from sea Wormwood: in English of some women of the countrey, garden Cypresse.
1693 N. Staphorst tr. L. Rauwolf Trav. Eastern Countries i. ix, in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. I. 107 A Garden-Cypress with gold-colour'd flowers.
1858 C. C. Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Flowers 355 The sea-wormwood (A. maritima vel Gallica)..or ‘garden cypress’..flourishes abundantly on our sandy shores or salt marshes.
1888 F. C. Schübeler Viridarium Norvegicum II. 20 Santolina chamaecyparissus, L...Engl. Cotton Lavender, Garden Cypress, Ground Cypress.
1921 H. W. Youngken Text Bk. Pharmacognosy ii. i. 477 Flower heads of Santolina chamæcyparissus L., or Garden Cypress have been detected..in a shipment of Matricaria from Spain.
1923 A. Bernhard-Smith Poisonous Plants of all Countries (ed. 2) 9 Artemisia martima (British). 17. Sea Wormwood—Garden cypress.
2003 G. Skenderi Herbal Vade Mecum 334 Santolina. Other Common Name(s): garden cypress, lavender cotton.
garden flag n. (a) the German iris, Iris germanica; (b) (more fully sweet garden flag) the sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > irises
gladdona700
gladiolusc1000
flaga1387
fleur-de-lisc1390
regworta1400
yellow flag1526
lug1538
yellow lily1555
spurge-wort1562
swordling1562
garden flag1578
ireos1578
iris1578
stinking iris1578
water flag1578
yellow iris1578
fane1597
Florentine flower-de-luce1597
stinking gladdon1597
stinking sedge1597
velvet flower-de-luce1597
orris1609
sisyrinchium1629
luce1642
Florence iris1664
cuttle-haft1688
blue flag1732
snake's-head iris1739
flag-flower1753
roast-beef plant1800
shalder1825
flag-leaf1827
sweet sedge1839
poison flag1840
flagger1842
wedding-flower1869
mourning iris1874
flagon1878
Rocky Mountain iris1880
Florentine iris1882
Japanese iris1883
flag-lily1884
sword-flag1884
blue iris1886
thunderbolt1898
scorpion iris1900
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxxv. 193 That kinde [of Iris] whose flower is of purple and blewe is called of some Iris Germanica..and of some..garden flagges.
1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 6 Calami Aromatici. Of Aromatical reed, or sweet garden flag, It provokes urine, strengthens the lungues, helps bruises, resists poyson &c.
1694 W. Westmacott Theolobotonologia sive Historia Vegetabilium Sacra 71 The Garden-Flag or Flower-de-Luce..bear a blue and yellowish Flower, the Roots being thick, long, and tuberous, with hairy threds.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Age You may add half a Pound of Garden-flag Root, and infuse it in the White Wine with the Gentian.
1887 Vick's Monthly Mag. Feb. 52/1 The old fashioned garden Flag has been brought to a state of perfection by cultivation, some varieties exquisitely lovely.
1956 R. Croft-Cooke Tangerine House 167 I can see how a grower may become infatuated with rare irises,..but why talk of the old cottage garden ‘flags’ as though they were weeds?
2009 B. J. Pellow et al. Flora Sydney Region 516 Garden Flag. Iris germanica L.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > pepper not from Piper nigrum > types of
long peppereOE
garden ginger1526
Guinea pepper1597
Ethiopian pepper1598
chilli1662
pimiento1671
pimento1673
piment1705
capsicum1725
cayenne1756
African pepper1788
paprika1839
Negro pepper1849
Japan pepper1866
shot-pepper1890
chilli powder1898
chile ancho1906
chile mulato1907
Aleppo pepper1920
pasilla1935
mirch1951
pepperoncino1951
shishito1975
chili pepper-
1526 Grete Herball sig. Jiv/2 Gardyn gynger..groweth hygh and hath leues moche lyke to strawberyes.
1650 J. Waite Creatures Liberation 45 When they [sc. Crætian Goats] are hitt with any Arrows, they betake themelves to eat of the Herb Ditanie, or Dictander, otherwise called Garden-Ginger, which..is of that nature that it will worke out the head of an Arrow.
1790 G. Morris Let. Jan. in G. Washington Papers (1996) Presidential Ser. V. 83 Fraxinelle—frapinelle—garden ginger.
1877 E. C. Brewer Errors of Speech & Spelling I. 246 Dittany,..garden ginger; the leaves smell like lemon-thyme. Also called dittander.
1921 Bull. N.Y. Bot. Garden 11 222 Dictamnus root. Garden ginger. European dittany. White Fraxinella. The root of Dictamnus albus L.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlix. 528 The shortstart, hony-meale, and garden globe [Fr. franc-estu]..rare and singular apples.
1679 G. Miege Dict. Barbarous French at Franc-estu The Garden-globe, (the name of an apple.)
garden jalap n. now rare the four o'clock plant, Mirabilis jalapa, the root of which is used medicinally as a purgative; cf. jalap n. 2. Also called marvel of Peru, pretty-by-night.
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1883 W. R. Guilfoyle Catal. Plants Melbourne Bot. Gardens 104 Mirabilis jalapa..Common Marvel of Peru or Garden Jalap Plant.
1977 D. Hawkes tr. C. Xeuqin Story of Stone II. xliv. 376 This isn't ceruse, it's a powder made by crushing the seeds of garden-jalap and mixing them with perfume.
2014 T. K. Lim Edible Medicinal & Non-medicinal plants VIII. 497/1 Mirabilis jalapa..False Jalap,..Four O'Clock Plant, Garden Jalap.
garden mallow n. [after post-classical Latin malva hortensis (4th cent.)] (originally) the common hollyhock, Alcea rosea (family Malvaceae) (now rare or disused); (in later use also) any of several mallows of the genera Lavatera and Malva, now typically cultivated as ornamental plants.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > mallow flowers > hollyhock
French mallowa1500
garden mallow1526
hollyhock1548
rose mallow1633
mallow1707
poppy mallow1861
sidalcea1882
1526 Grete Herball cclxxi. sig. P.iv Malua ortensis gardyn malowes It is a grete malowe in maner of a tre with grete leues.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 782 Of the garden Mallow called Hollihocke.
1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 36 The Garden-Mallow..proper rather for the Pot.
1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner iii. xxviii. 145 To the cooling and emollient herbs before-going, I add the garden mallow, equal to these for goodness.
1884 Illustr. Sci. Monthly 2 176/2 The grandest of the garden mallows are the well-known Lavatera arborea and L. trimestris.
1935 N.Y. Times 25 Aug. x8/5 These improved garden mallows..have huge blossoms..in rose, crimson, deep pink, and pure white.
2008 R. K. Horst Westcott's Plant Dis. Handbk. (ed. 7) 493 The fungus..attacks roots and stems of a varied list of hosts including..garden mallow, mountain-laurel, marigold and zinnia.
garden nightshade n. black nightshade, Solanum nigrum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun]
morela1400
nightshadea1400
petty morel?a1425
hound's-berryc1485
micklewort1531
manicon1543
garden nightshade1576
dulcamara1578
mad nightshade1578
raging nightshade1578
sleeping nightshade1578
solanum1578
tree nightshade1597
black nightshade1607
moonshade1626
mumme tree1629
winter cherry1629
blue bindweeda1637
canker berry1651
shrub-nightshade1666
poison berry1672
nightshade1733
woody nightshade1796
Sodom apple1808
African nightshade1839
solanal1846
felon-wood1861
shoo-fly plant1949
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > poisonous bush or tree > [noun] > deadly nightshade
nightshadeOE
dwale14..
garden nightshade1576
deadly nightshade1578
sleeping nightshade1578
belladonna1597
death's herb1598
sleepy nightshade1611
banewort1861
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 79 Adde so much of the water of the garden Nightshade [L. solani hortensis] or petie Morell, as is the weyght of the whole substance.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xxix. 59 The Common or Garden Nightshade is not dangerous, being heretofore planted in Gardens as other herbs, for food.
1796 P. Wakefield Introd. Bot. xi. 63 The garden Nightshade is known by its black berries and white blossoms.
1882 Garden 16 Dec. 532/3 The Garden Nightshade..is a common annual weed.
1959 Times 1 Dec. 9/2 The deaths..were at first thought to be caused by vegetable poisoning through eating garden nightshade (Solanum nigrum) as a relish.
2003 J. Sanders Secrets Wildflowers 166 Black, or garden, nightshade..is occasionally called deadly nightshade because the leaves and the unripe berries are thought to be somewhat poisonous.
garden patience n. patience dock, Rumex patientia (now rare or disused); (in later use also) (U.S.) yellow dock, R. crispus.
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. xiv. 483 Garden Patience is a kinde of Docke.
1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 79 Monks Rhubarb, or Garden Patience..; two Ounces of the powder'd Root, and a Scruple of Ginger, taken in a Morning, purge yellow Bile and watery Humours.
1877 J. Hogg Veg. Garden 90 (heading) Garden Patience..is seldom if ever grown as a vegetable in this country.
1974 N. Coon Dict. Useful Plants (1977) 214 Rumex crispus..garden patience... A ten-minute cooking of the young leaves gives a delicious vegetable.
1991 B. S. Middleditch & A. M. Amer Kuwaiti Plants 68 Rumex patientia L. (Garden patience, Herb patience, Monk's rhubarb, Patience dock).
garden pea n. any of several varieties of pea, Pisum sativum, cultivated for human consumption; a seed of such a plant, typically canned or frozen when freshly picked.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > other peas
garden pea1573
rathe-ripe1677
pigeon pea1683
sugar pea1707
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
maple pea1732
egg-pea1744
petits pois1820
pea1866
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
vining pea1959
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 30v/2 Set garden pease and beanes if ye please.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. lii. 522 Garden Pease are for the most part the greatest and sweetest kinds.
1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 558 In the..month of Dec. and Jan. were garden pees in blossom.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 165 The Surgeon extracted a biliary concretion, about the size of a large garden pea.
1796 Enumeration Principal Veg. & Veg. Productions 21 The garden pea. (Pisum sativum).
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 215 Garden peas..are raised by more careful and expensive culture for the purpose of being eaten green.
1877 Garden 14 Apr. 301/2 The garden Pea has mostly white flowers, and produces two or three on each stalk.
1920 Biblical World 54 563/2 Mendel, who gave us the first statement of laws of inheritance, worked with the common garden pea.
1951 E. David French Country Cooking 231 Put the contents of a large tin of garden peas through a sieve.
2004 Waterloo Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier 18 Jan. e4/4 The garden pea known today was developed in England and is named, naturally English pea.
garden poppy n. any of various poppies (genus Papaver) cultivated as garden plants, esp. the opium poppy, P. somniferum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers
poppyOE
horned poppy1548
yellow poppy1548
sea poppy1562
garden poppy1577
wind-rose1597
prickly poppy1648
squatmore1691
oriental poppy1731
Welsh poppy1731
infernal fig1760
Mexican poppy1811
Meconopsis1836
redcap1846
horn-poppy1851
squirrel-corn1856
eschscholtzia1857
dielytra1864
Dicentra1866
yellow thistle1866
turkey-corn1884
Shirley poppy1886
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 58 Garden Poppy [L. Papauer satiuum]..is thought best to growe, where old stalkes haue ben burnt.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 416 Garden Poppy, is narcoticke, provokes sleep, outwardly it easeth pain.
1722 T. Fairchild City Gardener ii. 31 The Garden-Poppy..brings very large Flowers, and very double..; some all Red, and some striped with White and Red.
1863 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) I. 84 Papaver somniferum Sleepbearing Poppy, Garden Poppy, White Poppy, Opium Poppy.
1965 Observer 24 Jan. 12/6 The tall, absurdly nicknamed ‘garden poppy’..whose fat capsules yield the raw material of oblivion.
2005 P. Brandt Rep. Food Safety v. 19/1 The ground seed of garden poppy is a much used ingredient to sweet dishes and cakes.
garden rocket n. (a) the plant Eruca sativa, cultivated for its edible, peppery leaves; = rocket n.4 1; (b) the plant Hesperis matronalis, cultivated for its fragrant purple and white flowers; = rocket n.4 3.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. Eviiiv Gardine Rokket..is muche greater then the other, & it hath a white leafe.
1687 J. Floyer Φαρμακο-βασανος i. ii. 225 Garden-Rocket is very Acrid and Bitterish, and of a Strong, Acrid, Pungent Smell, and a little unpleasant.
1726 B. Townsend Compl. Seedsman 15 Garden Rocket, is a very hot Sallad Herb, to be eaten while it is young and tender.
1784 J. Abercrombie Propagation & Bot. Arrangem. Plants & Trees II. 428 [Hesperis] matronalis. Matron's, or Dames Violet, or common Garden Rocket.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 306 Garden Rocket..cultivated by our ancestors..still..found in gardens on..the Continent.
1864 Dollar Monthly Mag. July 71/2 The double white, and double purple varieties of the garden-rocket are extremely beautiful and fragrant.
1903 G. Moore tr. A. Santerre Farmer's Veg. Fruit & Flower Garden ii. ii. 70 The garden cress and the garden rocket..are used in the making of a salad, as a kind of dressing.
1991 Elyria (Ohio) Chron.-Telegram 16 June b4/2 If you're looking for a perfect wildflower for a shady spot,..try the one called Dame's Rocket, Dame's violet, or garden rocket.
2006 Weed Sci. 54 744/1 Garden rocket, garden cress, and Indian mustard seeds were obtained from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
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1678 E. R. Experienced Farrier ii. 109 Things good for the Stone in General, or for the Stone in the Kidneys... Ale-hoof,..the Fuz-bush, Garden-rod, Herb Robart,..Hysop.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 286 All sorts of fibrous Rooted Plants..such as Holyoaks..Garden Rods..and Hieraciums.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > asparagus
asparagusc1000
spergec1400
speragec1440
sparagus1543
sparage1565
garden sperage1577
sperage1647
sparrowgrass1652
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 54 The Garden Sperage [L. satiuos asparagos] they were not acquainted with.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 53 If a man be annointed with Asparagus or garden-Sperage..there will not (by report) a Bee come neere for to sting him.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum iv. 20 454 Those sorts of garden Sperage or Asparagus, whose young buds are most usually eaten with us, as a sallet herbe of great esteeme.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Asparagus Garden Sperage.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > endive
endivec1440
garden succory1538
intube1657
endive1832
1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Intvbvm Ryght gardyn suckery.
1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physician 212 The Garden Succory hath longer and narrower Leaves than Endive, and more cut in or torn on the edges, and the Root abideth many years.
1777 J. Berkenhout tr. P. Pomme Treat. Hysterical & Hypochondriacal Dis. xvi. 162 Two days after his purging physic, he should begin a course of chicken-broth, with a handful of bitter garden succory.
1852 W. Beach Amer. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) III. 245 The Cichorium endivia, or garden succory, possesses similar properties, but not in so efficacious a degree.
1912 W. S. Blatchley Indiana Weed Bk. 143 The endive or garden succory, a closely related species [to chicory], is in England said to open its petals at 8 o'clock in the morning and close them at 4.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.ij Lotus vrbana..hath a yealow floure. It may be named in english gardine Clauer or gardine Trifoly.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) App. i. 1203 Noble Liverwort..Garden Trefoile.
1710 W. Salmon Botanologia II. 1166/2 The stronger scented Garden Trefoil or Claver.
a1722 J. Quincy tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians London (1727) 321 Lotus hortensis odora. Sweet or Garden Trefoil.
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a. attributive, denoting animals that live in or regularly visit gardens, or that are regarded as pests in gardens, as garden ant, garden bird, garden snail, garden worm, etc.
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1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. ii. f. 35 Garden wormes [It. lombrichi] ketche Flies.
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth (front matter) Helpes againste Scorpions, Todes, Garden myce, Weasels, and all other beasts.
1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 17v Temper Nitre, with garden Snayles stamped shelles and all, such as feede on hearbes hot and drie.
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 18 Gather great Garden-Wormes.
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 231 For I have observed these two last dry springs, that there has been no soft garden snails to be found abroad.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 173 The Garden-Mouse is an Animal that digs the Earth like a Mole.
1746 Museum 7 June 206 My Garden-Ants had two Resorts: one which seemed to be their Dwelling, and another their Store-house.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 3 This is the garden-snail, that carries its box upon its back.
1842 ‘Piscator’ Pract. Angler ii. 111 The garden worms..are small worms of somewhat a flesh colour cast, inclining to pink above the knot.
1862 Cultivator June 184/1 My present purpose is to write of an intruder, which is in many gardens extremely troublesome and vexatious... I refer to the garden mole.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 306 The garden birds sang down the setting sun.
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite i. 36 You waited a tram by the Windmill Steps, it came showding and banging up from the Station, green like a garden slug.
1982 Agric. Hist. 56 546 Thomas Hill..wrote of the use of rhodophanes (oleander) to kill field and garden mice and rats.
2002 N.Z. Herald 5 Mar. d4/2 Huhu grubs, wild pork and venison, sheep brains and garden snails are on the menu for the Wild Foods Festival.
2008 Independent 22 May (Extra section) 10/4 Making compost from organic waste has long relied on garden worms.
b. In names of animals of this kind.See also garden carpet n. 1.† garden ouzel n. Obsolete the blackbird, Turdus merula.
garden chafer n. a Eurasian beetle with a greenish head and prothorax and reddish-brown wing cases, Phyllopertha horticola (family Scarabaeidae), which feeds on leaves, flowers, fruits, and (in the larval stage) roots, and may become a garden pest.
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1833 J. Rennie in Walton's Compl. Angler 286 (note) This is not properly a fly, but a beetle, called the fern, or garden chafer.
1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 800/1 The..garden-chafer or ‘cocker-bundy’ (Phyllopertha horticola),..has a dark green prothorax and brown elytra.
2008 J. Perris All About Bowls ix. 158 The adult garden chafer is about 9mm long.
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1836 C. T. Wood Ornithol. Guide 189/1 Garden Ouzel. Merles des jardins,—Schwarzer Merl. Merula hortensis, Wood.
1885 M. Howitt Birds & their Nests (new ed.) vi. 37 Some judges think the garden-ousel exceeds it [sc. the nightingale] in mellowness.
1911 W. H. Hudson in Living Age 18 Mar. 676/2 What more fascinating object in life for a wandering Englishman..who loves birds and above all others the ‘garden ouzel’ of his home?
garden pebble n. (more fully garden pebble moth) a Eurasian pyralid moth with brown- and grey-streaked whitish wings, Evergestis forficalis, whose caterpillars feed on cabbages and other brassicas.
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1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 426 The garden Pebble.
1892 Times 29 Feb. 4/3 The apple was attacked by the sawfly..; the cabbage by the garden pebble moth (pionea forficalis).
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 858/2 Garden Pebble Moth, Pionea forficalis, is widely distributed over the British Is. and frequently a pest of Brassicas, especially Cabbage and Cauliflower.
2000 D. V. Alford Pest & Dis. Managem. Handbk. vii. 197 Cabbage moth and garden pebble moth are sporadic and localized pests of crucifers.
garden spider n. any of various spiders, esp. orb-web spiders, often found in gardens; spec. Araneus diadematus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > miscellaneous types > epeira diadema (garden-spider)
garden spider1701
diadem-spider1854
cross-spider1883
1701 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 880 Another Spider that I found in a Thistle..was eight times less than the great Garden Spider.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 450 The labour of the Garden Spider is very different from that of the former species.
1912 House & Garden Mar. 17/1 No one has ever entered the medical record as ‘died from the bite of a garden spider’.
2008 National Trust Mag. Autumn 75/1 You will see perfect ‘dollies of death’ everywhere, those classic orb webs made by spiders of the genera Araneus and Zygiella (often referred to as garden spiders).
garden tiger n. now rare (more fully garden tiger moth) a Eurasian and North American tiger moth commonly seen in gardens, Arctia caja, having boldly marked brown and white forewings and orange and black hindwings.Also called great tiger moth.
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1795 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects IV. 70 The Caterpillars very much resemble those of the large Garden Tiger Moth.
1881 Times 19 Apr. 4/3 Here also are the garden tiger with its caterpillar, the woolly bear, so common in our gardens.
1952 Proc. Royal Soc. London B. 139 323 The garden tiger moth, Arctia caja, can be bred in captivity for two or three generations with ease; after that a fatal virus infection is apt to appear.
garden warbler n. [originally after scientific Latin Sylvia hortensis Orphean warbler (1790)] (a) the Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis, which is often seen in gardens (now rare or disused); (b) a medium-sized, greyish-brown warbler lacking distinctive markings, Sylvia borin, which is a summer migrant to Europe from Africa and is typically found in dense undergrowth.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia hortensis (beccafico)
fig-bird1576
snap-fig1603
beccafico1621
fig-pecker1647
fig-finch1655
pettichaps1673
fig-eater1678
nettle-monger1712
garden warbler1817
nettle creeper1984
1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. 581 (heading) Garden Warbler. (Sylvia hortensis.).
1843 Zoologist 1 13 In the spring of 1841 the redstart..and garden warbler were very numerous.
1909 Ibis 3 705 Dr. Hartert accordingly wishes to adopt the name ‘Sylvia hortensis’ for the Orphean Warbler and to call the Garden-Warbler ‘Sylvia borin’, it being, in his opinon, the Motacilla borin of Boddaert.
2016 Times 12 Sept. 27/1 Blackcaps, garden warblers, willow warblers,..and lesser whitethroats have frequently been arriving in gardens.
garden white n. (also garden white butterfly) the large white butterfly ( Pieris brassicae) and the small white butterfly ( Artogeia rapae), the caterpillars of which are pests of brassicas, nasturtiums, and certain other cultivated plants; also called cabbage white.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Pieridae > genus Pieris > member of
garden white1766
Pieris1855
1766 M. Harris Aurelian 62 They [sc. Wood Whites] fly twice a year, or at the same Times with the large and small Garden Whites.
1892 Daily News 6 Oct. 5/1 The caterpillars of the Garden White—the green grubs that do so much damage among the cabbages—are crawling up the walls.
1916 E. Step Marvels Insect Life 261 (caption) The numbers of the garden-white butterflies are reduced by the action of certain small ichneumon-wasps.
2014 M. D. Letts Once Fog Has Lifted i. 6 A number of butterflies like the garden whites and meadow browns ascended into the garden.
C7. † garden butt n. Obsolete rare a target set up in a garden for archery practice.† garden-glass n. Obsolete (a) a bell glass used for covering plants in a garden; (b) an ornamental coloured glass globe positioned in a garden to reflect surrounding objects (rare).† garden mould n. Obsolete rich upper soil for use in a garden.† garden-Paris n. Obsolete rare a noisy, disorderly place; = Paris garden n.† garden satin n. Obsolete flowered satin.† garden tillage n. Obsolete cultivation of a garden; (also) garden produce.
garden book n. a book giving information or advice about gardening; (also) a book in which garden records are kept.
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1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum v. lxxvi. 634 Besler in the great garden booke of [Eystet]tensis calleth it [sc. sweete wild Campion] Ocimastrum noctiflorum flore albo.
1863 H. Wilson Chrons. of Garden 72 Records of changes made in the garden..if duly recorded in a garden-book, become matters of interest in after years.
1903 Bookman 25 61/1 The volume now before us comes opportunely as a justification of what has grown to be called a ‘garden book’.
2002 R. Murphy Kick (2003) 167 He was..longing to escape, even from his library stocked with rare poetry and garden books.
garden boy n. a man or boy engaged to work in a garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun]
leightonwardc1000
curtilera1300
gardenerc1300
gardener1340
curtelaina1400
hortulan1526
ortolan1526
Adamist1623
fosterer1628
gardeneressa1645
under-gardener1687
horticulist1754
horticultor1760
yard boy1776
garden boy1798
horticulturist1818
plantsman1881
mali1908
plantswoman1933
1798 A. Ellis Country Dyer's Assistant Introd. p. vi The coat..is thrown aside, or given to Jack the garden boy.
1867 H. C. Selous Gerty & May 73 When Mosy the garden-boy had put the saddle on Teddy, he brought him round to the porch.
1951 D. Lessing This was Old Chief's Country i. 12 Working in our house as servants were always three natives: cook, houseboy, garden boy.
2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 211 It would take many years, working up through the ranks from garden boy, to gain the knowledge necessary.
garden burger n. U.S. a vegetarian burger; = vegeburger n.The ingredients of the burger in quot. 1966 are unclear.
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1966 Nashua (New Hampsh.) Tel. 28 Feb. 3/2 (advt.) This week's shoppers special garden burger.
1987 New Mexican (Santa Fe) 1 July a3/2 (advt.) Garden Burgers (found in our freezer section)... Two delicious, pre-baked grain and vegetable patties per package.
1992 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 7 May 1 d Maybe a garden burger ($ 4.25) of crumbled tofu violates manly myths, but it tasted fine to me.
2015 C. Calvert By my Side x. 65 A cook behind the grill announced an order up for a garden burger and sweet potato fries.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target
bercelc1440
butt1440
shell1497
rover1511
standing pricka1525
round1531
popinjay1548
prick-mark1553
Turk1569
twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569
garden butt1572
parrot1578
clout1584
hoyle1614
shaw-fowl1621
prick wanda1650
goal1662
1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 12 Shootinge at Garden Buttes..wyth longe Bowe.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F3 When I had..carried my buckler before me like a garden But.
garden centre n. a specialist retail establishment selling gardening equipment, plants, and other products for the domestic garden.In quot. 1912 apparently: †a location from which plants are distributed (obsolete).
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1912 Manch. Guardian 5 Sept. 4 The valuable place occupied by the garden centre at Wisley, Surrey, in enabling the Royal Society to distribute plants among their members.
1965 C. Kelway Gardening on Sand ix. 117 Look out for them [sc. dwarf trees] at the now-popular garden centres where many may be seen growing in containers.
2015 Daily Mail 23 May 98/2 Garden centres offer many varieties [of succulent].
garden chair n. (a) a chair intended for use in a garden; †(b) a chair on wheels; a bath chair (obsolete).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelchair
wheelchaira1684
garden chair1729
Merlin chair1791
Bath-chair1823
wheeled chair1847
1729 Country Jrnl. 1 Mar. (advt.) Ready made, all Sorts of Windsor Garden Chairs of all Sizes, painted green or in the Wood.
1747 C. Cock Catal. Furnit. Duke of Chandos 12 A neat mahogany garden chair on wheels.
1831 Society 1 122 Seated in the garden-chair appropriated to Miss Herford's use, and drawn by her favourite donkey, away went the cousins.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xiii. 271 The garden chairs standing among the flower-beds.
1977 G. Woods Bloody Harvest 97 He had..two garden chairs set up so he could stretch out and watch the sun go down.
2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 427 Coach rushes me..out into..a courtyard with a set of weatherworn garden chairs.
garden close n. an enclosed area of land used as a garden.Recorded earliest in a place name.
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1772 Act Dividing & Inclosing Fields Great Paunton, Lincoln 22 All that other Close called Little Garden Close, containing One Rood and Twenty Perches.
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 277 Who will fetch from garden-closes Some new garlands while I speak?
1928 D. Barnes Ryder xvii. 114 She was..seen but once in a garden close snip-snipping in hempen gloves.
2013 M. Roth Scientists 165 To walk into the rare sun of an English June, past the gated garden closes of colleges.
garden colony n. a name given to the province of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in South Africa, on account of the extent and beauty of its plant life.
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1877 J. Noble S. Afr. Past & Present 319 Natal, the garden colony of South Africa—covers an area of 20,212 square miles.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 10/1 It is the Garden Colony of South Africa.
2008 M. Lake & H. Reynolds Drawing Global Color Line 115 Indians..had travelled to the ‘garden colony’ as contract labour since 1860.
Garden County n. [compare slightly earlier Garden State n.] U.S. an exceptionally fertile and beautiful county in a particular state.
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1855 Ohio Cultivator 15 June 184 Three times three for the garden county.
1981 Paris (Texas) News 3 Feb. 1/1 An initiative to have Lamar County declared the Garden County of Texas.
2000 S. A. Sullivan Keep Rhythm & Bridge Won't Swing 197 Many of the young men in Garden County were leaving for the West Coast.
garden craft n. the management of gardens; the technique of gardening.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun]
gardening1481
gardenage1601
horticulture1678
gardenership1711
garden craft1833
1833 Gardener's Mag. 9 272 A branch of garden craft well worth attention.
1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas 5 To enjoy and appreciate the Italian garden-craft one must always bear in mind that it is independent of floriculture.
2003 Times of India 22 Apr. 2 An evening short course in ‘Garden Craft’..for amateur garden enthusiasts.
garden eel n. any of the small conger eels of the genera Gorgasia and Heteroconger, native to warm waters of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, which live in burrows on the sea floor from which the head and upper body protrude; also with distinguishing word.So called because these eels frequently live in large colonies or ‘gardens’ which resemble a field of plant stalks (compare use of garden in this context in quot. 1938).
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1938 W. Beebe Zaca Venture ii. 60 Before me, covering the considerable expanse of sand within view, was a garden of eels.]
1957 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 109 59 We managed to obtain a specimen that day and could determine that the garden eels were truly heterocongrids.
1994 G. R. Allen & D. R. Robertson Fishes of Trop. E. Pacific 57 (caption) Spotted garden eel. Gorgasia punctata.
2002 Guardian 11 May f11 We get down to find the hulk surrounded by hundreds of little garden eels, their heads sticking out of the sand like grass.
garden egg n.
Brit. /ˌɡɑːdn ˈɛɡ/
, /ˌɡɑːdn ˈɛɡ/U.S. /ˌɡɑrd(ə)n ˈɛɡ/
, /ˌɡɑrd(ə)n ˈɛɡ/Caribbean English /ˌɡaː(r)dn ˈɛɡ/
, West African English /ˌɡaden ˈɛɡ/
Jamaican and West African the fruit of the eggplant or aubergine, Solanum melongena; cf. vegetable egg n. 2./ˌɡaden ˈɛɡ/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > aubergine
love apple1578
brinjal1611
brown jolly1756
melongene1793
aubergine1796
egg-fruit1811
garden egg1811
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > aubergine > egg-plant
eggplant1767
melongena1785
garden egg1811
Jew's apple1838
1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus p. xiii Garden Egg. (Solanum Melongena.) Cut in slices, parboiled and fried, resembles fried eggs.
1895 Bull. Bot. Dept. Jamaica 2 134 Strictly speaking Garden Eggs, Tomatoes, Melons, Cucumbers, etc., are fruits, but they are usually cultivated, and classed among vegetable crops.
1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds xiv. 141 The Shepherd's Bush market has a shop devoted wholly to West African foods..like..garden eggs and fou-fou.
2005 Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner 2 June c3 (caption) Baked chicken garnished with carrot, cucumber and garden egg.
garden engine n. now historical a portable pump used for watering a garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > watering apparatus
watering pot1448
water-pot1530
garden pot1548
watering can1685
watering pan1702
spout head1733
garden engine1744
chantepleure1842
waterer1884
1744 J. T. Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. II. 516 (table) Garden Engine..Hand Engine.
1815 W. Edridge Specif. Patent 3948 Solder may in such instances be employed..to render the pump a fire or garden engine.
1892 Garden 27 Aug. 179 The bushes were so bad, that I had them well sprayed with the garden engine.
2011 M. C. Carmichael Putting Down Roots 163 A..garden engine..could be employed to distribute large quantities of water.
garden escape n. a plant, esp. a non-native plant, found growing outside a garden or other area where it was being cultivated; cf. escape n.1 2a.
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1858 Phytologist 3 379 The botanists of this country..must needs have recourse to the hypothetical agency of birds, monachism, garden escapes, and other problematical and unproved operative causes.
1962 Times 5 July 14/7 She had collected as many as 35 different kinds of flowers.., mostly wild plants, but the count included many garden escapes.
2005 I. Burrows Food from Wild v. 61/2 Spearmint, M. spicata, is the common garden mint, and is often found as a garden escape.
garden flat n. (chiefly British) a basement or ground-floor flat with a view of and access to a garden or lawn; = garden apartment n. 3.
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1922 Times 4 July 4/7 (advt.) Garden Flat, Belmont Road, Scarborough.
1976 R. Rendell Fallen Curtain & Other Stories 30 The place was known euphemistically as a garden flat but it was in fact a basement.
2014 Independent (Nexis) 25 Nov. 18 An unlikely revolution is being plotted..in the garden flat of a genteel Georgian terrace.
garden frame n. a frame covered with glass or clear plastic used to protect plants; = frame n. 9b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > glazed frame or cloche
framea1678
hand glass1727
garden frame1731
bark-stove1732
garden-glass1732
handlight1786
tan-stove1828
cold frame1851
cloche1882
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar 214 They [sc. pots] may be placed very close together, in a garden frame.
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 72/1 They were essentially greenhouses, although perhaps more like our garden-frames.
1995 Amateur Gardening 25 Nov. 11/1 When the seedlings are large enough, prick them into a seed tray and overwinter in a garden frame.
garden-fresh adj. (of fruit and vegetables) freshly picked; (in extended use, esp. of the taste of food) arising from or suggestive of ingredients straight from the garden, absolutely fresh.
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1904 Congregationalist & Christian World 10 Sept. 367/1 A hammock, cool water from the well and six vegetables garden-fresh.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 119/1 (advt.) Most infants seem to prefer the garden-fresh taste of the foods Heinz prepares for them.
1964 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 8 Dec. 5 (advt.) She'll love surrounding herself with this light, bright, garden-fresh scent.
2014 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 3 May 10 Spring greens and purple broccoli add garden-fresh bite to any plate.
garden furniture n. (in early use) objects, such as plants, ornamental structures, etc., commonly found in a garden; (now) spec. items of furniture, such as chairs, tables, etc., suitable for outdoor use in a garden.Quot. 1693 shows similar compounding of kitchen garden n.
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1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Treat. Orange Trees i. 3 in Compl. Gard'ner All these afflicting Accidents..invading all our Olitory and Kitchin-Garden Furniture [Fr. Plantes Potageres].]
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Kitchen-garden The Soil is to be made more rich than for Corn; most Garden-furniture requiring a fatter Mould, if you design to have them prosper well.
1745 J. Mill Present Pract. Conveyancing 18 The Use of all the House and Furniture.., and all Garden Furniture, Garden Tools and Implements of Gardening.
1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Hedges The various plants and trees.., which were infinitely more agreeable, as garden furniture, than the perpetual shew of so much Hedge-work obtruding always upon the sight.
1853 Horticulturalist July 301 Garden Furniture, if we may be allowed the expressive term, embracing arbors, seats, trellises, and other structures of use and ornament in the garden.
1959 Home Encycl. 108 The prime timbers for well-made garden furniture are teak and oak.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees v. 108 Fabulous all-weather wood that makes fine garden furniture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > glazed frame or cloche
framea1678
hand glass1727
garden frame1731
bark-stove1732
garden-glass1732
handlight1786
tan-stove1828
cold frame1851
cloche1882
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > garden ornaments
garden-glass1732
gnome1938
1732 E. Strother Prælectiones Pharmaco-mathicæ I. 48 What other is that Moisture within our Garden Glasses after a Sunshine?
1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 24 The garden-glasses shone, and momently The twinkling laurel scatter'd silver lights.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Garden-glass, 1. a round globe of dark-coloured glass, generally about 1½ foot in diameter, placed on a pedestal, in which the surrounding objects are reflected: much used as an ornament of gardens in Germany.
garden gnome n. a model of a gnome used as a garden ornament.
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1931 Scotsman 30 Jan. 5 Quaint garden gnomes and figures.
1966 M. Kelly Dead Corse vii. 100 The owners of plastic flowers and garden gnomes, and plaster teal taking wing across the wall of the lounge-diner.
2001 N.Y. Times 24 June iv. 14/1 Garden gnomes, pointy-hatted staples of British lawns.
garden ground n. (a) a plot of ground used as a garden; (b) ground suitable for a garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun]
leightonc950
orchardOE
garden1279
yard1390
vergera1400
smelling cheat1567
garden ground1577
gardenage1600
smeller1610
viridary1657
viridariumc1660
gardening1682
greenery1783
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth vi. 11 The placing of a Garden grounde neare to a Fenne or Marrishe, is euery where to be misliked.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4938/3 A Piece of Garden-ground, and a Tenement thereupon.
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. xvi. 268 All the vineyards and garden-grounds for a considerable extent are vaulted underneath.
1808 S. Toller Treat. Law Tithes iv. 124 It is very usual..to agree with the occupiers of garden-ground for a stated composition by the acre.
1870 H. W. Longfellow Alarm-bell of Atri in Atlantic Monthly July 2 Rented his vineyards and his garden-grounds.
1995 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 23 Sept. 19/3 (advt.) Exclusive area of Garden ground to front with fine view over the Holy Loch.
2007 M. Conan Middle East Garden Trad. 1987 A state determined to fight..groups ready to appropriate the garden grounds to their own ends.
garden herb n. a herb or (formerly) a vegetable grown in a garden.
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c1545 ‘Erra Pater’ Pronostycacyon sig. B4v All gardayne herbes shall be good chepe.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 223 Galen did never eat of any other Garden herb save this [sc. lettuce].
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 19 Yet he sent..garden-herbs and fruit, The late and early roses from his wall.
1999 M. Cezair-Thompson True Hist. Paradise xxxii. 172 I also made a small sum selling my garden herbs—mint, bellyache bush, and so on.
garden knot n. a flower bed or other area in a garden with a formal, usually intricate, design.
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1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iii. iv. sig. D2 In garden knottes diuersitie of odours make a more sweete sauour.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §111 In Garden-knots, and the Frets of Houses, and all equall and well answering Figures.
1857 Horticulturalist 12 558 A garden-knot is simply a mathematical flower bed.
2011 H. Dugan Ephemeral Hist. Perfume 162 Woodcuts of garden knots, herb borders, and labyrinths accompanied late sixteenth-century planting calendars.
garden leave n. British (euphemistic) suspension from work on full pay during a notice period, typically to prevent an employee from influencing the organization or acting to benefit a competitor before leaving; = gardening leave n. at gardening n. Compounds 2.Earliest in attributive use.
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1990 Financial Times 19 Jan. 19/2 An injunction would not be granted to enforce garden leave arrangements where there is no real prospect of..damage to the employer.
2016 Hampstead & Highgate Express (Nexis) 4 Feb. Haverstock School dismissed her in June last year, having put her on garden leave on full pay 12 months before.
garden light n. †(a) a garden frame (obsolete); (b) a light used to provide illumination in a garden.
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1739 London Evening-Post 29 Mar. (advt.) A Parcel of Garden Lights and Pots.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic xi. 754 This mode of taking glass and putty out of old frames and garden-lights will be found useful when it is necessary to proceed to re-glazing.
1919 House Beautiful May 322/2 He has devised a garden light with which he makes it possible to delve in his garden..in the evening.
2007 N. Rosen How to live Off-grid iv. 129 A third mini water turbine powers the garden lights.
garden lot n. chieflyU.S. a piece of ground used, or suitable for use, as a garden.
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1636 Town Rec. Salem (Mass.) in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1868) IX. 27 A howse lott & a garden lott.
1822 Scotsman 7 Dec. We should not be surprised to find an agent..selling neat garden lots, or small tithe-free estates.
1910 Garden Mag. May 241/3 If you think the soil of the garden lot is acid, make a chemical test.
2011 Hist. Archaeol. 45 26/1 They grew tobacco, corn, and wheat, and maintained a garden lot.
garden magic n. †(a) the enchanting effect of a garden (obsolete); (b) the use of magic to (supposedly) aid the cultivation of a garden.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > magic to aid gardening
garden magic1904
1904 E. Wharton Ital. Villas v. 175 All but the statues have now disappeared, but much of the old garden-magic lingers.
1916 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 46 385 The very first days after my arrival..I hardly knew of the existence of garden magic. Later on I was allowed to assist at his chanting over magical herbs.
1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound iii. 71 The cult has come a long way from simple garden-magic.
2004 Oceania 75 94 The United Church has strongly discouraged practices which involve ‘incantations’ - a fundamental component of garden magic.
garden matters n. knowledge or information relating to gardens or gardening.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 49 To shewe me some part of your great knowledge in Garden matters [L. hortensium philosophia].
1862 Beeton's Garden Managem. 378 The law of proportion is applicable to garden matters as to other things.
1994 Irish Times 13 Aug. 11 She is most thoroughly steeped in garden matters, having worked for the National Botanic Gardens.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > organic soil > mould > layer
garden mould1573
garden earth1577
staplea1722
staple-soil1847
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 400 Thus..Hath Gascoigne gathered in his Garden molde.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 131 They [sc. Hops] delight most in the rich black Garden-mold, that is deep and light, and that is mixed rather with Sand than Clay.
1898 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) No. 140. 186 The plants must be carefully potted in garden mould, to which a little old farmyard manure should be added.
garden order n. a tidy and orderly arrangement such as might be found in a garden.
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1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra xviii. 130 All the Blades of Grass, and Flowers of the Field, should be placed in Knots, and a Garden-order.
1787 A. Young Jrnl. 18 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 5 Nothing can be more beautiful, or kept in more garden order, if I may use the expression.
1802 Farmer's Mag. May 248 The field might then be preserved in garden order.
1994 N. Scott tr. P. Descola Society of Nature (1996) 324 This spectacular reduction of forest tangle to garden order.
garden pale n. a pale (pale n.1 1a) in or from a fence surrounding a garden.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a paling > a stake
pale board1483
garden pale1591
stab1680
paling1820
stake1897
1591 Inventory of Robert Howldsworth 25 Feb. in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 89 In the kilne..Itm. the garthen paill with raill and all other pall and wood a the garth.
1789 Compan. Leasowes, Hagley & Enville 49 Close to the garden pales in a narrow walk..we have a bold rising lawn.
1859 J. B. Taylor Virginia Baptist Ministers 140 He once paddled a small canoe with a garden pale.
2005 G. M. Lanier Delaware Valley 96 The garden pales and thousand-odd panels of field fence..surrounded William Bradley's land.
garden paling n. fencing or a fence surrounding a garden, esp. such a fence made from wooden pales.
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1760 E. Hoppus Gentleman's & Builder's Repository (ed. 4) (title page) New Designs for Paling of different Kinds, common Fences, Garden-paling, both close and open.
1813 Niles' Weekly Reg. 4 12/2 A temporary breastwork, composed of rails and garden pailing.
1935 V. Canning Polycarp's Progress i. 16 A great bush of white roses sagged over a garden paling.
2002 Moscow News (Nexis) 31 July Rusty Nazi army helmets perch on the front garden paling around the rural house.
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1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 84 Bred up, where Discipline most rare is, In Military Garden-Paris.
garden patch n. chiefly U.S. a patch of land used, or suitable for use, as a garden; a garden plot.
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1814 Scots Mag. May 350/1 The fields here were so small in dimensions, that they appeared to us like little garden patches.
1924 R. Cummins Sky-high Corral 17 The fat cook puffed in from the garden patch.
2009 Organization Amer. Historians Mag. Hist. 23 II. 33/1 Slaves would also often tend to their own garden patches where they would raise vegetables.
garden path n. a path in a garden (see also Phrases 5).
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1596 P. Levens Right Profitable Bk. All Diseases (rev. ed.) f. 43 In some soft foote-path-waie, or els in some Garden path.
1799 M. Robinson False Friend IV. cvi. 275 We proceeded along the garden-path, towards the churchyard.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xviii. 262 He lingered in the garden paths, looking at the flowers.
2000 S. Brett Body on Beach (2001) xxii. 168 No front grass was allowed to grow ragged and weeds had been banished from..garden paths.
garden penny n. now historical a payment or tithe formerly levied on garden produce.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > other dues, taxes, or imposts > [noun]
groundagec1450
obit1468
battelc1475
consulage1589
stickpenny1601
garden penny1634
castle-guard1641
Thing-dues1886
1634 in I. Mortimer Berks. Glebe Terriers (1995) 24 Offerringes at Easter, Garden Penny, except the tithes of fiue yard land.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Brighthelmston The vicar here..claims the old episcopal custom of a penny per head (commonly called Smoak-Money, or the Garden-Penny).
1882 City London Charities & Churches Bristol Sel. Pamphlets 6 In Bethnal Green there is a Composition Rate in lieu of Easter dues and ‘garden pennies’.
2010 M. Barber et al. Reformation to Permissive Society 273 The rector was denied..small tithes which, with ‘garden pennies’, Easter offerings and burial fees went to the church warden.
garden plot n. a plot of land used, or suitable for use, as a garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot
bedc1000
sollarc1440
garden stead1546
garden plot1548
quarter1565
square1615
orbell1635
area1658
earth-bed1757
1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 3116 in Secretum Secretorum (1977) 508 The howse shall hee haue and A gardeyne plott.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. x. 116 Knights and men of valour, whose worth must be tried in the Field, not vnder a Rose-bed, or in a Garden-plot.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 221 Affording even the suburban tyro a chance of ornamenting his garden-plot.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Property Suppl.) 10/4 I had envisaged a lawn, plane trees, a garden plot to grow plump red tomatoes.
garden produce n. vegetables or fruit grown for sale or domestic use.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [noun]
fruitc1175
garden produce1726
green goods1856
1726 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry & Gardening (rev. ed.) I. i. v. 150 Those of our Acquaintance, who differ from us in their Taste of Garden-produce.
1832 Examiner 2 Sept. It [sc. the railway] is found advantageous for the carriage of milk and garden produce.
1932 Pop. Mech. Feb. 141 Garden Sprayer. Kills insects that injure trees, shrubbery and garden produce.
2015 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 12 July (Discover section) 4 This country restaurant is committed..to..using only the freshest garden produce, seafood and meat.
garden refuse n. unwanted organic material produced by gardening, such as grass cuttings and hedge clippings.
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1806 Eclectic Rev. Mar. 169 Cows are fed with garden refuse and Indian corn.
1908 Garden Mag. June 286/2 We have found when working in our city back yard that it is absolutely necessary to have a box for garden refuse.
2001 Irish News (Nexis) 13 Dec. 13 The sites will cater for the disposal of bulky household rubbish and garden refuse.
garden roll n. now rare a heavy cylinder fitted with a handle or shafts, used for smoothing a lawn or path; = garden roller n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > roller
garden roll1639
garden roller1676
1639 in Early Stuart Househ. Accts. (1986) 193 Mending the frame of the garden rowle.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxxii. 354 Drawing a heavy garden-roll.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen & Flower Garden 162 Dragging a garden-roll is capital gymnastic exercise; and your grass-plots and gravel-walks will be very much the better for it.
2012 Farmers Weekly 11 May 143 A..4t roll was followed by..a garden roll to finish where the large roll couldn't get.
garden roller n. a heavy cylinder fitted with a handle or shafts, used for smoothing a lawn or path; cf. garden roll n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > roller
garden roll1639
garden roller1676
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Cylinder, a Garden-roller, or any thing of that form.
1792 C. Smith Desmond I. 59 A figure who gave me the idea of a garden roller set on its end.
1878 Garden 9 Mar. 219/2 The ordinary garden roller is not so suitable for this purpose.
2012 P. Berg Moon Gardener 87 Lightly smooth it with a garden roller.
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1718 Weekly-Jrnl. 25 Oct. 587/2 Gowns for Men and Women of Brocades, Garden Sattins, rich flower'd Silks.
1880 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Apr. 326 With branches of gay-tinted flowers..Sierra might well call it ‘garden satin’.
garden sauce n. (also (colloquial) garden sars, garden sarse, garden sass) U.S. (now historical and rare) garden vegetables, esp. when used as an accompaniment to other food (see sauce n. 2a).
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1791 Amer. Museum Oct. 179 For want of garden sauce, they..eat more flesh than is consistent with their health.
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. 91 I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse.
1869 S. Bowles Our New West xi. 231 A load of grain, pork, or ‘garden sass’.
1919 K. L. Butterfield Farmer & New Day v. 76 It would be perfectly feasible for an organized community..to grow ‘garden sauce’ for the neighborhood.
2002 D. C. Smith Stud. Land 9 His other crops were peas, oats, turnips, and garden ‘sass’.
garden shade n. a shady or shadowed area in a garden; the shade found in such areas.
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1670 N. Wanley tr. J. Lipsius Disc. of Constancy ii. iii. 151 I should cloyster up, and..bury my self in these Garden shades [L. in his hortorum vmbris].
a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 92 I to a Garden-Shade withdrew.
1821 J. Hamilton Garden Florence 16 The olive aisles of that still garden shade.
2004 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 17 Apr. There are two principal kinds of garden shade: the pleasant, dappled sort under which..flowers will thrive, and dense shadow only a few plants can tolerate.
garden side n. the side of something, esp. a building, that is adjacent to a garden.
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1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. cclxiii/1 They..entred agayne by the gardeyne syde in to the freres.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. iii. v. f. 92v My Chamber, which is vpon the Garden side.
1776 T. Maurice Hagley 3 The views from the house are every way delightful; particularly that on the garden side.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 7 On the garden side, a root-bench was constructed against the bole of the tree.
1922 House & Garden May 62/2 This utter difference in composition between the entrance side and the garden side.
2015 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. (Property section) 3 The master bedroom, complete with en suite and balcony on the garden side.
garden sin n. (a) Theology (frequently with capital initial(s)) the transgression of divine law committed by Adam in the Garden of Eden, leading to the Fall; †(b) a plant which harms or spoils a garden; a weed (obsolete rare).
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1651 S. Sheppard Epigrams iii. xx. 49 Christ the true Jove, the Lord and King of Heaven, By the Decree of Providence was driven As't were in exile, doom'd mans form to take, Our Grandsyres Garden-Sin to expiate.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 86 Neglecting it till they [sc. the weeds] are ready to sow themselves, you do but stir and prepare for a more numerous Crop of these Garden-Sinns.
1708 M. Sylvester Christian's Race & Patience II. 171 The Garden-Sin divorces all Mankind from Fellowship with God and Angels.
1852 Western Hort. Rev. Jan. 200/2 Weeds exhaust the strength of the ground and if suffered to grow, may be called garden sins.
1877 Probl. of Evil xv. 198 The penalty to the garden sin was spiritual death and not eternal death.
2016 J. Nicholl Augustine's Probl. vii. 156 Without the double burden of Greek philosophy and a Manichean past, it would be easy to say the Garden sin does damage human nature.
garden spot n. U.S. (a) a garden or a place suitable for a garden; a garden plot; (b) a region noted for its fertility or natural beauty.
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1617 J. Boys Expos. Proper Psalmes: 2nd Pt. 41 Beside the Garden spot, there be chambers, and halls, and parlours.
1655 F. Raworth Jacobs Ladder 148 In England..we are but a spot of Christs Kingdom, though I hope, a Garden-spot.
1767 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1860) II. 87/1 Agreed with the Rev. Peter Clark to hire his House,..and a garden spot.
1813 Niles' Reg. 4 317/2 The Rapids of the Miami may justly be termed the ‘garden spot’ of the territory.
1898 T. N. Page Red Rock 298 It's the garden spot of the world—the money's jest layin' round to waste on the ground.
1992 J. A. Hostetler in R.-M. Testa After Fire Foreword p. xiv An area long known as ‘the Garden Spot of America’.
2015 St. Joseph (Missouri) News-Press (Nexis) 3 Sept. For decades, Flower Society members have tended a small garden spot.
garden stead n. now rare and archaic a piece of land used, or suitable for use, as a garden; = garden plot n.
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1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1894) I. 181 Master Swynow, j garden stede, viijd.
1609 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 249 The place..is Conuerted..into Certaine gardensteeds.
1851 Manch. Guardian 20 Dec. 11 Lot 14 The garden steads..in the occupation of the said Jane Kelsey.
1996 Sustainable Agric. Directory (ed. 3) Ref. #557 I'm..endeavoring to help create the renaissance of original agriculture as the self-sufficient garden stead in harmony with nature.
garden suburb n. a spacious residential area in a town or city, laid out with open areas, parks, etc. (cf. garden city n. 2); (formerly also) †an area of natural beauty just outside a town or city (obsolete).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > suburb > garden-suburb
garden suburb1826
1826 J. M. Sherer Notes & Refl. Ramble Germany 24 There is a garden suburb in the gorge..above which Luxemburgh is built, the situation of which is peculiar and beautiful.
1831 Rec. Case C. Mitchell & Others, versus U.S. (U.S. Supreme Court) 474 Several lots and yards of the garden suburb were sold at auction.
1905 S. A. Barnett Let. 28 Jan. in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. 191 My wife has had a very busy week, interviewing people re the Garden Suburb.
1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit iii. 42 Here is one corner of a foreign field That is for ever garden suburb.
2010 H. Watzman tr. A. Helman Young Tel Aviv iii. 79 When Tel Aviv was a garden suburb of Jaffa, it forbade the opening of stores within its boundaries.
garden syringe n. any of various types of syringe used in gardening to soak, sprinkle, or inject water or another liquid (such as plant food, pesticides, etc.) over or into plants.
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1784 Parker's Gen. Advertiser 20 May (advt.) Garden Syringes, for the use of tobacco water, or quicksilver water, made on a new construction.
1849 J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. IV. 129/2 The application of a strong solution of salt to various plants and beds with a garden syringe destroys some noxious insects.
1908 I. L. Richmond In my Lady's Garden xiii. 120 Water in abundance is necessary for everything growing in such a place [sc. a hanging garden], and a strong garden syringe should be constantly used.
2007 F. M. Bradley Rodale's Veg. Garden Probl. Solver 272/1 You can use a garden syringe to inject the nematode solution into squash stems to kill squash vine borers.
garden things n. now rare garden produce, esp. vegetables.
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1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 432 Your Soil must be made more rich than for Corn, most Garden things requiring a richer Soil.
1860 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 3 Oct. The garden things come up the same season after season.
1918 Christian Reg. (Boston) 30 May 524/2 Many people in the village were glad to have his mother's..directions for cooking the garden things.
2014 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 30 Apr. d2 A lot of people are planting early garden things and I am hoping to find time to do that.
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1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 139 (heading) Of Beans, Pease, Melons, Cucumbers, Asparagus, Cabbage, and several other sorts of Garden-Tillage.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry ii. 106 Peas and Beans are what belong to Garden Tillage as well as that of the Field.
1925 Wisconsin Circular No. 132 Mar. 23 Thinking about the work..removes half the so-called drudgery of garden tillage.
garden town n. a garden city; a garden suburb; (in earlier use also) a town with many plants and public gardens (now rare).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > other types of city
kine-burghc1225
City of Goda1382
city of refuge (alsorefute)a1425
mother city?a1425
imperial city1550
city dwelling1613
second city1621
out-city1642
garden town1835
hoard-burg1895
garden city1898
cathedral city1902
parasitopolis1927
twin city1973
arcology1985
sustainable city1986
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town
country town1598
post town1635
Residenz1824
garden town1835
Residenzstadt1841
hometown1851
tin town1884
ghost town1894
new town1918
shopping strip1935
twin town1955
1835 Microcosm Oct. 7 The garden-town—city of Bowers and Blossoms.
1915 P. Geddes Cities in Evol. iii. 54 The conditions for labour and its real wages, in the innumerable garden-towns and villages which are springing up.
2012 T. Kearey Glance in Mirror 2 A semi-detached house located in one of London's ‘garden towns’.
garden truck n. North American garden produce.
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1789 Amer. Museum Apr. 371/1 Potatoes, cabbage, various kinds of pulse and other garden truck.
1897 R. M. Stuart Simpkinsville 152 I s'pose you and Mis' Carroll've been swappin' confidences about garden-truck.
1998 Canad. Geographic Sept. 80/1 We've got plenty of garden truck, country meat, a cow and a pig.
garden variety n. a variety of plant cultivated or likely to be found growing in a garden; (in extended use, frequently attributive) a common, ordinary, or unremarkable type of anything; cf. common or garden at common adj. and adv. Phrases 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun]
garden variety1783
1783 C. Bryant Flora Diætetica vi. 234 The only garden-variety [of Cherries] procured by sowing the stones, is the Black Corone.
1882 Garden 11 Nov. 426/1 The garden varieties of Salpiglossis rank amongst the finest of all half-hardy annuals.
1908 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 13 Mar. 8/5 The story told by the girl is a regular thriller and puts to shame the offerings of the garden variety of stock company.
1983 Garden Design Autumn 10/1 In the garden variety ‘Aureomarginata’, they are longitudinally striped and margined with yellow.
2013 E. Laybourne Sky on Fire xiii. 121 It felt good to have something to fight for, besides the old garden variety survival.
garden village n. a residential community organized like a garden city (garden city n. 2), esp. one provided by a company for its workforce; (also) an unspoilt picturesque village (now rare).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > other types of village
post village1673
mill village1834
lake-settlement1863
pile village1863
lake-village1865
lake-hamlet1878
pile settlement1878
garden village1892
tree-village1901
model village1906
street village1928
strategic hamlet1963
1892 Standard 3 Nov. 6/2 The garden village which Mr. Baird discovered, and M. Maritioni fled to for repose, is now a collection of handsome residences.
1903 Sphere 5 Dec. 192/1 Krupp at Essen have gradually evolved a form of village almost identical with the Bourneville garden-village.
1933 Archit. Rev. 74 120 He may preserve as much as he can and create a garden village which will be an addition to the neighbourhood.
2009 Church Times 23 Oct. 11/4 Then Pilkington moved in with its glass factory, and..expanded Kirk Sandall into a tree-filled garden village for its workers.
garden walk n. a broad path in a garden, suitable or set aside for walking.
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1585 J. Norden Sinfull Mans Solace f. 2 With Garden walks, and pleasant springs: & princely parks of deere.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 90 And now he strains the warp Along the garden-walk, or highway side.
1997 V. Chandra Love & Longing in Bombay (1998) 5 The morning..found him striding up and down the garden walk.
garden wall n. a wall bordering a garden.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > garden-wall
garden wallc1405
yard-dike1595
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 202 The grete tour..Was euene ioynant to the gardyn wal.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Piiv Let Lorde, this tree bee set within thy Garden wall Of Paradise.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 256 She proposed that instant to scale the garden wall.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. i. 9 The garden-wall of the..house.
2014 M. Ockley Saintly Killing 120 Faith..snipped some chives..from the border by the garden wall.
garden wall bond n. see garden-wall-bond at bond n.1 13a.
garden ware n. now rare and archaic garden produce, esp. vegetables; = garden things n.
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1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. i. sig. Gggg4 The Country..abundantly well stored both with Corn, Cattel, and Garden-ware for the use of their Kitchins.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 432 A clay bottom is a much more pernicious Soil for Trees and Garden-ware than Gravel.
1840 Standard 16 Nov. He obtained his living by hawking garden ware and fruit.
1986 S. Carolina Hist. Mag. 87 118 The practice of folding also manured the soils, providing sites for planting ‘Garden Ware’.
garden waste n. unwanted organic material produced by gardening, such as grass cuttings and hedge clippings.
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1839 M. Doyle Cycl. Pract. Husb. 13 Cabbage sprouts and garden waste..will fatten them [sc. the animals] without any sensible..diminution of the farm produce.
1988 New Scientist 5 Nov. 49/1 Every bonfire is different, but estimates suggest that a tonne of average garden waste gives off 30 kilograms of carbon monoxide.
2015 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 5 June (HAB section) 16 Make a compost heap or worm farm to recycle food scraps and garden waste rather than adding to landfill.
garden wicket n. a small door or gate in, or leading into, a garden.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. viii. 24 Of Lectuce, the Greeks haue set downe three kinds: whereof the first riseth vp with so large and broad a stalke, that..little garden wickets [Fr. portes aux iardins; L. ostiola olitoria] were commonly made thereof.
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 2 Sept. 604 I rode up to the garden-wicket of a cottage.
1998 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 18 Aug. 3 A garden wicket made of branches and twigs..will open the way to a tile platform.
garden-worthy adj. (of a plant) considered desirable for cultivation and display in a garden; suited to and likely to thrive in a garden environment.
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1936 New Flora & Silva Apr. 205 There is..no large genus of hardy shrubs which contains so small a proportion of garden-worthy ones as Ribes.
1992 J. E. Bryan Bulbs iii. 35/2 These are..garden-worthy in all parts of the country, except the warmer areas, where getting them to bloom well again presents some problems.
2015 Times (Nexis) 6 June (Weekend section) 18 They [sc. geums] look quite delicate and dainty but are surprisingly tough, coping easily with a heavy rainstorm or a few cold nights—great for a show but a good sign for any garden-worthy plant.
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ˈgarden-like adj. resembling, characteristic of, or suitable for a garden.
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1607 T. Procter Worke conc. Mending High-waies sig. B2v If your ground or earth in any of your waies to be made, bee gardenlike moulde, soft, sandye or crumbling.
1765 T. Cunningham New Treat. Laws conc. Tithes iv. 59 The tithe of beans and pease, cultivated in a gardenlike manner,..is a small tithe.
1838–42 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. ii. 35 Its garden-like farms.
1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 90 An apartment development of two or more buildings which has a garden-like setting.
2009 S. L. Koss China Heart & Soul 163 Modest landscaped courtyards occupied the space between each pair of buildings, creating a garden-like ambience.
ˈgarden-wise adv. in the manner of, or in relation to, a garden.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 37 After in Marche to order it [sc. the feelde] garden wyse [L. subacto vt in hortis solo], castyng it into beddes.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (1887) III. 134 Its courtyard is laid out garden-wise.
2014 Daily Press (Victorville, Calif.) 23 Jan. 1 Who said there is nothing garden-wise to do in the winter months?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
gardenv.
/ˈɡɑːdn/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrdən/ 1.
a. intransitive. To tend or cultivate a garden; to carry out horticultural work; to grow flowers, fruit, or vegetables. Formerly also: †to lay out a garden (obsolete rare).
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden [verb (intransitive)]
garden?1558
gardenize1830
?1558 H. Baker tr. O. Fine Rules Vse of Almanackes (new ed.) xxx. sig. G.iv If the mone do behold Saturn wt trine or sextile aspect, being in the signe of..Libra. It is good..to sow and to garden [Fr. iardiner].
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 53v I knowe in hotte Countreys they garden all the Winter long [L. etiam per hyemem culturas non intermittunt].
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 266 When Ages grow to Ciuility..Men come to Build Stately, sooner then to Garden Finely.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 33 There he had built, and garden'd, and planted, and made it a Dwelling fit for all the changeable Seasons of the Year.
1765 B. Franklin Let. 4 June in Wks. (1887) III. 391 You should have gardened long before the date of your last.
1792 C. Dibdin Hannah Hewit III. v. vi. 70 I gardened, I wrote, I painted, I played on..the guitar.
1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve in Poems (new ed.) 99 I shall never garden more.
1844 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 137 I..read scraps of books, garden a little, and am on good terms with my neighbours.
1914 M. Gyte Diary 21 May (1999) 19 A very bright day today... Some of our men have been gardening.
1982 J. Krantz Mistral's Daughter (1983) xxix. 435 Anyone..could learn how to garden from books.
2014 D. Maranhao Rocky Mountain Fruit & Veg. Gardening Pref. 6 I gardened in the Pacific Northwest as a child but never really took to the task.
b. transitive. To cultivate (land) as a garden; to grow flowers, fruit, or vegetables on (land). Formerly also: †to bring (a landscape) into a particular state by gardening (obsolete rare).figurative in quot. 1620.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden [verb (transitive)]
garden1575
gardenize1887
1575 A. W. in G. Gascoigne Posies sig. ¶¶¶¶ij So seemeth by the wight, which gardened this grounde, And set such flowers on euery bed, that Posies here abounde.
1620 L. Andrewes Serm. Whitehall 16 Apr. 27 He sc. Christ it is that gardens our soules too, and..weedes out of them whatsoeuer is noysome or vnsauoury.
1669 T. Manley Usury ii. 11 Some have given the ground five or six years together, upon condition to garden it, and preserve the trees.
1731 S. Switzer Diss. True Cythisus of Ancients 38* The sort of Land I sow'd it in..has been either gardened or sown with Corn, beyond the Memory of any one now living.
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. I. v. 322 The trees have been judiciously spared..the long landscape..gardened into more perfect beauty.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/3 The gallery of well-dressed women..suggests the simile of some gorgeous flower-bed, carefully gardened.
1914 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 324/1 To make the garden meet their needs Benjy gardened the entire property.
1940 E. C. Elliott It happened this Way 174 The courts were to be gardened, the campus landscaped.
2001 Times (Nexis) 9 June The residents of the newly built ziggurats of flats were allowed to collectively buy the surrounding land, and now it is gardened by them.
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1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §iv, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) To garden a hawk upon a tuff of grasse.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Garden a Hawk,..is to put her on a Turf of Grass to chear her.
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1865 Athenæum 4 Feb. 154/3 They were there superbly housed and luxuriously gardened.
4. intransitive. Cricket. colloquial. Of a batter: to repair unevenness in the pitch, esp. by clearing loose grass or flattening the ground with the end of the bat. Also (and in earliest use) transitive: to repair (the pitch) in this way.Sometimes used as a tactic to delay play or waste time.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > smooth out pitch
garden1921
1921 Times 20 July 5/3 He was so absorbed..with ‘gardening’ the wicket that he paid too little attention to hitting the ball.
1956 N. Cardus Close of Play 15 They both attended to the turf every ball, ‘gardening’ assiduously, and how thoroughly Sutcliffe would pat the earth.
2013 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 29 Apr. 44 As the minutes ticked by, the former gardened for England while the latter put in some magnificent shoelacetying.
Derivatives
ˈgardenable adj. (of land or soil) suitable for cultivation as a garden; suitable for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [adjective] > gardened > capable of being
gardenable1804
1804 S. T. Coleridge Let. 21 Apr. (1956) II. 1134 Above the Town, little gardens..are scattered here & there, wherever they can force a bit of gardenable ground.
1976 D. J. Greenwood Unrewarding Wealth 103 The restriction of gardenable soil may..force the farmer to raise cattle.
2001 J. A. Duke & M. Castleman Anti-Aging Prescriptions ii. 20 Even if you don't have 6 gardenable acres.., you can take advantage of the benefits of gardening.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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