Definition of Garden truck

1. Noun. Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market.

Exact synonyms: Green Goods, Green Groceries, Produce
Generic synonyms: Food, Solid Food
Specialized synonyms: Edible Fruit, Veg, Vegetable, Veggie, Eater
Derivative terms: Produce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Truck

garden pink
garden plant
garden rake
garden rhubarb
garden rocket
garden roller
garden shears
garden snail
garden sorrel
garden spade
garden spider
garden strawberry
garden symphilid
garden tool
garden trowel
garden truck (current term)
garden variety
garden violet
garden webworm
gardened
gardener
gardener's delight
gardener's garters
gardeners
gardenful
gardenfuls
gardenhood
gardenhose
gardenia
gardenias

Literary usage of Garden truck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"CHAPTER XXXV INSECTS INJURIOUS TO garden truck Only the market gardener and those who have tried to raise a few vegetables in their own kitchen gardens ..."

2. The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford (1911)
"... SYSTEMATIC HANDLING OF THE CANS — AUCTIONING GARDEN-TRUCK AT MIDNIGHT — A HISTORIC CITY FREIGHT-HOUSE. PERHAPS you have seen a gay Limited in green and ..."

3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"garden truck. Vegetables raised for market. See Truck, in body of book. Q-as-Bag. ... garden truck ..."

4. Special Report on Prison Labor by Ohio Bureau of labor statistics, H. W. Benson (1911)
"Five of the inmates were engaged in farm work, raising vegetables and other garden truck for the institution. Three were unemployed by reason of temporary ..."

5. Convict Labor by United States Bureau of Labor, Charles Patrick Neill (1906)
"250 suits, convict garden truck 44,5.421 pounds Ix'ef. pork, poultry, and veal; 62J tona hay; 3.8M pounds butter; 1757 dozen eggs; 11 tons fodder; ..."

6. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"CHAPTER XXXV INSECTS INJURIOUS TO garden truck Only the market gardener and those who have tried to raise a few vegetables in their own kitchen gardens ..."

7. The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford (1911)
"... SYSTEMATIC HANDLING OF THE CANS — AUCTIONING GARDEN-TRUCK AT MIDNIGHT — A HISTORIC CITY FREIGHT-HOUSE. PERHAPS you have seen a gay Limited in green and ..."

8. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"garden truck. Vegetables raised for market. See Truck, in body of book. Q-as-Bag. ... garden truck ..."

9. Special Report on Prison Labor by Ohio Bureau of labor statistics, H. W. Benson (1911)
"Five of the inmates were engaged in farm work, raising vegetables and other garden truck for the institution. Three were unemployed by reason of temporary ..."

10. Convict Labor by United States Bureau of Labor, Charles Patrick Neill (1906)
"250 suits, convict garden truck 44,5.421 pounds Ix'ef. pork, poultry, and veal; 62J tona hay; 3.8M pounds butter; 1757 dozen eggs; 11 tons fodder; ..."

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