Gardener

Definitions

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
3. A coachman who drives badly.
   derogatory, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“"Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant⟳ virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena”

“At the far end⟳ of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.”

“Get⟳ on, gardener! Get⟳ on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.”

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