truck garden
truck garden noun: synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
Noun
truck garden (plural truck gardens)
- Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
- As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above...1792 November 4, George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799, volume 32
- it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy...1901, Booker T. Washington, chapter 14, in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- Synonyms:
- market garden
Synonyms of truck garden
Forms of truck garden
| plural | truck gardens |
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Origin of truck garden
From truck (“to trade”).
Questions about truck garden
- What does truck garden mean?
- Truck garden means synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
- What part of speech is truck garden?
- Truck garden is a noun.
- What is the plural of truck garden?
- The plural of truck garden is truck gardens.
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