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making garden

making garden is the present participle and gerund of make garden.

Meaning of make garden

Verb

make garden (third-person singular simple present makes garden, present participle making garden, simple past and past participle made garden)

  1. (Canada, US, dated, idiomatic) To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.
    • As the spring advanced, and after Jacob left us, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the house doing nothing, and therefore undertook to make us a garden, or “to make garden” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.1852, Susanna Moodie, chapter 8, in Roughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 142
    Synonyms:
    garden

Questions about making garden

What is making garden the present participle and gerund of?
Making garden is the present participle and gerund of make garden.

Words near making garden in the dictionary

  1. making free with
  2. making friendly
  3. making friends
  4. making fun of
  5. making game of
  6. making garden
  7. making good
  8. making good on
  9. making good one's running
  10. making good time
  11. making ground

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