Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
GARDENING
gardening, horticulture
(noun) the cultivation of plants
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
gardening (countable and uncountable, plural gardenings)
The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.
(cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps
Verb
gardening
present participle of garden
Anagrams
• dangering, deranging, gandering, grenading
Source: Wiktionary
Gar"den*ing, n.
Definition: The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
GARDEN
Gar"den, n. Etym: [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 appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak.
Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. 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 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, (Zoöl.), 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.
Gar"den, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gardened; p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening.]
Definition: To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
Gar"den, v. t.
Definition: To cultivate as a garden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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