Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The products of a vegetable-garden, particularly when grown for market.
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Examples
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Not once, but many times, I have seen a load of "fodder" or "garden-truck" driven into the yard and immediately _surrounded_ by this one big dog, who would keep the black driver crouching at the very top of the load with
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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A thousand Japs in the San Gregorio can raise enough garden-truck to feed the city of Los Angeles -- and they will pay a whooping price for good land with water on it.
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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With irrigation the rich alluvial soil of the desert will grow anything, and the original owner planned to raise garden-truck and cater to the local trade.
The Long Chance 1918
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They saved their money and now they're farming -- garden-truck mostly.
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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A man had squatted in this little shack for years, and had raised his own garden-truck.
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He'd be up at four in the morning, hoein 'up their old garden; raised garden-truck for their table, sparrow-grass and sweet corn -- yes, and roses, too; always had the house full of roses in June-time; never _was_ a house sweeter-smellin' to go into.
In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907
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When somebody traded stale eggs and garden-truck for good groceries, and the storekeeper saw he couldn't make trouble about it without losing a customer, he said nothing but scored it down against the man.
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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For a man that's dreamed of garden-truck jest as he wants it, and never had veg'tables enough in twenty years of sloshin 'round the world on shipboard, it's about the most cussed, aggravatin' thing I ever got against.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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If the possibility of raising garden-truck and tubers constitutes a
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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A gentleman could kill a free commoner, and pay for him -- cash or garden-truck.
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