'Market garden' definitions:

Definition of 'market garden'

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noun
A garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing

Definition of 'Market garden'

From: GCIDE
  • Market \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t, merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. march['e]. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart.]
  • 1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market. [1913 Webster]
  • He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. [1913 Webster]
  • There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. --John v. 2. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. [1913 Webster]
  • What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market. [PJC]
  • Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  • Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.
  • Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. --Shak.
  • Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
  • Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market.
  • Market place, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
  • Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Market garden'

From: GCIDE
  • Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
  • 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. [1913 Webster]
  • I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. [1913 Webster]
  • Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
  • Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
  • Garden glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
  • Garden house (a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]
  • Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
  • Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. --Mortimer.
  • Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. --Knight.
  • Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
  • Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
  • Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
  • Garden pot, a watering pot.
  • Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
  • Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
  • Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider ({Epeira diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web.
  • Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
  • Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
  • Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
  • Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
  • Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
  • Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
  • Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
  • Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
  • Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use. [1913 Webster]

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