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Webster 1913 Edition


Orchard

Or′chard

,
Noun.
[AS.
ortgeard
,
wyrtgeard
, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs;
wyrt
herb +
geard
yard. See
Wort
,
Yard
inclosure.]
1.
A garden.
[Obs.]
2.
An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; – used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
Orchard grass
(Bot.)
,
a tall coarse grass (
Dactylis glomerata
), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay.
Orchard house
(Hort.)
,
a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots.
Orchard oriole
(Zool.)
,
a bright-colored American oriole (
Icterus spurius
), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.

Webster 1828 Edition


Orchard

OR'CHARD

,
Noun.
[See Yard.]
An inclosure for fruit trees. In Great Britain, a department of the garden appropriated to fruit trees of all kinds, but chiefly to apple trees. In America, any piece of land set with apple trees, is called an orchard; and orchards are usually cultivated land, being either grounds for mowing or tillage. In some parts of the country, a piece of ground planted with peach trees is called a peach orchard. But in most cases, I believe the orchard in both countries is distinct from the garden.

Definition 2024


orchard

orchard

English

An apple orchard.

Noun

orchard (plural orchards)

  1. A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict:
      [] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, []
  2. The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

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