kitchen garden
3 definitions found
kitchen garden - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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]
Kitchen \Kitch"en\ (k[i^]ch"[e^]n), n. [OE. kichen, kichene,
kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen,
fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See
Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house,
restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.
[1913 Webster]
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
A fat kitchen makes a lean will. --Franklin.
[1913 Webster]
2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
[1913 Webster]
3. The staff that works in a kitchen.
[PJC]
Kitchen garden. See under Garden.
Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] "A brazen tub of
kitchen lee." --Ford.
Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. --Donne.
[1913 Webster]
kitchen garden - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
kitchen garden
n 1: a small garden where vegetables are grown [syn: kitchen garden
, vegetable garden, vegetable patch]
|
