truck garden
Noun

truck garden (plural truck gardens)

  1. A market garden, a farm raising produce meant to be sold locally.
    • 1792 November 4, George Washington, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140525073140/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=700376730&tag=Washington%2C+George%2C+1732-1799%3A+The+writings+of+George+Washington+from+the+original+manuscript+sources%3A+Volume+32%2C+1745-1799&query=truck&id=WasFi32 The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799], volume 32
      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 mentioned) is attempted.



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