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ˈorcharding
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The cultivation of fruit-trees in orchards.
1664Evelyn Pomona v. (1729) 67 All land is not fit for Orcharding. 1804Ann. Reg. 842/1 This example probably induced orcharding in Herefordshire..on a much larger scale. 1892Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 16 Jan. 1/4 An address..upon ‘The Advances of Orcharding in New England’.
†2. concr. Land laid out or planted with fruit-trees. Obs. (Chiefly American.)
1654in C. W. Manwaring Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Rec. (1904) I. 155 One halfe of all my howsing, Barnes and orcharding. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5951/4 Five Acres of Orcharding. 1788Massachus. Spy 19 June 4/3 Said Farm consists of mowing, pasturing, and orcharding, and is well watered. 1818Ibid. 25 Feb. 1/2 [A farm] is well proportioned into Mowing, Pasturing, Ploughland, Woodland and Orcharding. 1863Rep. Maine Board Agric. 142 One acre of orcharding on suitable soil..will produce three times the amount in value of any other crop. |