ˈorcharding
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The cultivation of fruit-trees in orchards.
| 1664 Evelyn Pomona v. (1729) 67 All land is not fit for Orcharding. 1804 Ann. Reg. 842/1 This example probably induced orcharding in Herefordshire..on a much larger scale. 1892 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 16 Jan. 1/4 An address..upon ‘The Advances of Orcharding in New England’. |
† 2. concr. Land laid out or planted with fruit-trees. Obs. (Chiefly American.)
| 1654 in C. W. Manwaring Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Rec. (1904) I. 155 One halfe of all my howsing, Barnes and orcharding. 1721 Lond. Gaz. No. 5951/4 Five Acres of Orcharding. 1788 Massachus. Spy 19 June 4/3 Said Farm consists of mowing, pasturing, and orcharding, and is well watered. 1818 Ibid. 25 Feb. 1/2 [A farm] is well proportioned into Mowing, Pasturing, Ploughland, Woodland and Orcharding. 1863 Rep. Maine Board Agric. 142 One acre of orcharding on suitable soil..will produce three times the amount in value of any other crop. |