Gardening
['gɑːd(ə)nɪŋ] or ['gɑrdnɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garden
(n.) The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
Inputed by Juana
Examples
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The amiable creature with the polished head told me a long story, which I think was about gardening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I wish William could get a job as gardener or summat i' that way; he understands gardening weel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to employ the Aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted manner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Clym tried to imagine Venn's choice for a moment; but ceasing to be interested in the question he went on again with his gardening. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am going away to wash my hands, which are somewhat grubby with my gardening, and will return in a few moments. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Gardening, for example, need not be taught either for the sake of preparing future gardeners, or as an agreeable way of passing time. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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