单词 | market gardener |
释义 | market gardenern. A person who owns or is employed in a market garden; (also more generally) a person who grows and supplies fruit, vegetables, and flowers to a (usually local) market.Now more commonly known in the United States as a truck-farmer (see truck n.1 Compounds 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] > types of gardener arborist1578 nursery gardener1629 nurseryman1629 raiser1707 kitchen gardener1709 market gardener1727 curator1761 landscape-gardenera1763 plannerc1770 mail-gardener1798 landscape architect1863 trucker1868 plantsman1881 weekend gardener1884 groundsman1886 rock gardener1886 tea-gardener1903 landscapist1936 wild gardener1966 1727 B. Langley New Princ. Gardening 26 Gardeners..are distinguished according to that Part of Gardening in which they are employ'd, as..the Market Gardener, and the Nursery Gardener. 1776 Farmer's Mag. May 58 It is the..practice of several market-gardeners..to manure their carrot lands equally..as for other crops. 1826 Westm. Rev. 5 20 The fruit and vegetables of a market gardener, on which his subsistence depends. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 188/1 Market-gardeners, who raise vegetables..for the supply of the London markets. 1901 R. Kipling Kim iii. 59 Behind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. He was a market-gardener. 1963 Times 22 Feb. 10/3 Sir Thomas Playford, orchardist and market gardener, has all the assurance even in the uncertain world of politics of a man who knows that he will reap what he sows. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 420 South Africa offered a host of opportunities for Indians particularly as peasant farmers or market gardeners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727 |
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