Under-gardener

(UNDER-¹ 6 a.)

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1687. Norris, Coll. Misc., 112. So ’tis in Eden, let me but have An under-gardener’s place, ’tis all I crave.

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1710. Swift, Mem. Change Q. Anne’s Ministry, ¶ 20. The letter … was delivered him by an under-gardener.

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1830. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. IV. III. 109. His elder brother, Tom, could take an under-gardener’s place directly.

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1865. J. H. Ingraham, Pillar of Fire, xiv. 170. This venerable man … was followed by not less than fifty under-gardeners.

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