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eight pounds (£8), cockney rhyming slang for eight, naturally extended to eight pounds. In spoken use 'a garden' is eight pounds. Incidentally garden gate is also rhyming slang for magistrate, and the plural garden gates is rhyming slang for rates. The word garden features strongly in London, in famous place names such as Hatton Garden, the diamond quarter in the central City of London, and Covent Garden, the site of the old vegetable market in West London, and also the term appears in sexual euphemisms, such as 'sitting in the garden with the gate unlocked', which refers to a careless pregnancy.
Wadden is Dorset slang for was not.
Garden hop was old London Cockney rhyming slang for to inform upon (shop).
Garden path is London Cockney rhyming slang for bath.
Camden (shortened from Camden Lock) is London Cockney rhyming slang for shock.
ONE AND ELEVEN PENCE THREE FARDEN
One and eleven pence three farden was old London Cockney rhyming slang for I beg your pardon.
Beg your pardon is London Cockney rhyming slang for garden.
Garden gate is London Cockney rhyming slang for magistrate. Garden gate is London Cockney rhyming slang for eight.Garden gate is London Cockney rhyming slang for friend (mate). Garden gate is merchant navy slang for the first officer (mate).
Covent Garden was old British rhyming slang for a farthing. Covent Garden is London Cockney rhyming slang for pardon.
Werden is Dorset slang for were not.
Gay Gordon is London Cockney rhyming slang for traffic warden.
Dolly Varden is London Cockney rhyming slang for garden.Dolly Varden is London Cockney rhyming slang for Covent Garden.
Garden shed is London Cockney rhyming slang for red.
Back garden is slang for the anus.
Garden hose is London Cockney rhyming slang for nose.
Garden plant is London Cockney rhyming slang for aunt.
Gordon (shortened from Gordon and Gotch) is London Cockney rhyming slang for a watch.
Garden gates was old British slang for rates.
Garden gnome is London Cockney rhyming slang for comb.
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n.
The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
a.
Like a garden.
n. pl.
The garden producing the golden apples.
imp. & p. p.
of Garden
n.
A tract of barren land.
v. t.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
v. t.
To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
v. t.
To cultivate as a garden.
n.
One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
a.
Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
v. i.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
a.
Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.
a.
Golden.
v. t.
To bind with a garter.
v. i.
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
v. t.
To invest with the Order of the Garter.
n.
Same as Garran.
n.
A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.
n.
A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
n.
An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
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