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orcharding

orcharding

6.0
To grow and care for fruit trees like apple trees
  • noun
  • /ˈɔrʧɪdɪŋ/
translation icon : cultivo de árboles frutales
  • There's like some mountain things and some orchards and farmland and some truckers.

Examples

  • Orcharding got its start in New England and New York during the colonial era, and over succeeding decades built upon that foundation.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Working by the Signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility of humans and animals, orcharding)

    Blog text (16)
  • In this manner, orcharding in Washington has become increasingly corporate.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • As a commercial enterprise, orcharding in the South did not compare with that in the North when the Berckmanses moved to Georgia in 1857.

    Academic text (2015)
  • He described orcharding in the North as "increasing by leaps and bounds."

    Academic text (2015)
  • It was all apple orchards and alfalfa fields and farm workers.

  • Well, it took over about half this raised bed and then sprawled into our indoor orchard and now it's literally overtaking our apple trees.

  • He sometimes has days when the orcharding business prompts him to pop a considerable number of antacid tablets.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Many families in the area have taken up orcharding to provide fresh fruit for their community.

  • The local school organized a field trip for students to learn about orcharding and how to care for fruit trees.

Synonyms

tree farming
vsorcharding
1 3.4

Growing and caring for trees to sell wood or help the environment

focuses on cultivating and managing fruit trees in a dedicated orchard setting
arboriculture
vsorcharding
  • Specialized
9.3

Caring for and growing trees for parks and gardens

is aimed at producing fruit trees for harvest and sale

Surface Forms

orcharding singular
orchardings plural

Morphology

orcharding = orchard (transparent) = orchard + ing

The word is transparently built from 'orchard' with -ing to refer to the activity of working in orchards, though the business sense is slightly specialized.

Etymology

Orcharding comes from the word orchard, which goes back to an old English word orceard made of parts meaning 'plant' and 'enclosure'. Think of an orchard as a special 'garden' for fruit trees, so orcharding is the work of growing and caring for those trees.