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Quotation dates: 1722, 1894-1926, 1985-1995
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GAIRDEN, n. Gen.Sc. form of Eng. garden. Also gerden; gairdin (Rxb. 1915 Kelso Chron. (10 Dec.) 4), gairdeen (Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 21), and contr. form gairn (Sc. 1911 S.D.D.). Also attrib. See P.L.D. §51 (2). [′gerdən, ′gɛr-]Kcd. 1722 Elphinstone Bk. (ed. Fraser 1897) II. 277:
Things belonging to the gairden.Edb. 1894 P. H. Hunter J. Inwick xiii.:
A muckle, weel-biggit hoose it was . . . wi' mebbe half an acre o' gress an' gairden grund roun' aboot it.Abd. 1920 C. Murray Country Places 12:
A gairden sweet wi' bud an' bell, A windin' path, a mossy well.Lnk. 1923 G. Rae 'Mang Lowland Hills 66:
Oh, rose-buss in her gairden set! Sae fu' o' heaven an' a' that's fair.Rxb. 1926 Kelso Chron. (25 June) 4:
In Bob's ain gairden there's a braw aipple tree.wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 20:
Ah better funn ma medicine an' dose masel'.
Tak' a turn aboot the gairden an' compose masel'. Edb. 1991 J. K. Annand in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 19:
There grew intil my gairden
A tree o the rosemarie. Edb. 1995 Irvine Welsh Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996) 25:
Bit see in Sooth Efrikay Vet, we'd huv a big hoose like Gordon's. Dry oor clathes in the sun, in a real fuckin gairdin, no in some concrete boax wi holes in it.
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