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Gardener(e, -are, Gardiner(e, -ar, n. Also: gardyner(e, -ynar, gaird(e)iner; gardner, -nir, -nar(e; gairdner, -nar, -nair; garner, gairner, -nar. [ME. gardener(e, -yner(e, gardiner (a 1300), ONF. *gardinier (OF. jardinier), med. L. gardin-, gardenarius.] A gardener.(a) 1329 Exch. R. I. 128.
xij bollas … liberatas Nicholao gardener [= ortolano, 130] 1389 Wemyss Chart. 24.
Saufand … twa acrys of land till his gardenare 1447 Exch. R. V. 266.]
[Magistro Roberto Gardenare 1456 Hay I. 162/18.
A gude gardenare mon quhilum tak the gude herbis amang the evill Ib. II. 163/30.
That thare be bot thou allane gardener apon thame a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1459.
Scho estimeit, that gardener bene had he c1500-c1512 Dunb. App. vii. 7.
All of dangere is our; gardenere 1603 Dundonald Par. Rec. 42.
Symon Tod, gairdeiner(b) 1456 Hay I. 102/3.
As dois the gardinere that may nocht draw out the evill herbes … bot gif he tak sum gude with a1500 Seven S. 290.
The … tale of the pynetre and the gardyner Ib. 298.
He callit his gardiner Ib. 305; etc.
The gardyuar said 1503 Treas. Acc. II. 368.
To George Campbell, gardiner … , to mak ane pair of buttis in the ȝard 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIII. 332 b.
Henrie Caldwall, gairdiner of Ninians craft 1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 80.
To Adam to pay the gardiners this weeks wadges(c) 1491 Treas. Acc. I. 176.
To the gardnare of Lythgow to by seydis to the gardin 1527 Reg. Privy S. I. 551/2.
Ane lettre to Adam Schaw … , … makand him gardner to the king 1541 Ib. II. 615/2.
Makand him our soverane lordis gardnare of his orchardis 1549 Reg. Cupar A. II. 239.
Kepand our orchart iu tyme of fruit … as ane gude trew gardnir aucht to do 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4192.
Incontinent for the gardner scho send 1558-66 Knox II. 216.
In everie colledge, we think neidfull … , ane gardnar, ane portar(d) 1560 Rolland Seven S. 1482.
Incontinent he callit the gairdnair Ib. 1490.
The gairdnar said, Maister it sall be done 1596 Montgomery Mem. 235.
To Thomas Rae gairdner, x lib. 1621 Edinb. Test. LI. 125.
To Johne Hamiltoune, gairdner … ane stane bounteth woll 1664 Peebles B. Rec. II. 61.
John Crichtoun, gairdner in Neidpath 1695 Foulis Acc. Bk. 177.
For 2 hanks whip cord to be a gairdner lyne(e) 1592 Reg. Privy C. V. 652.
[Six] gairneris, burgesses of Glasgu 1605 Glasgow Prot. II. 120.
Gairneris and remanent brethrein, assisteris of the craftis 1621 Maxwell Mem. I. 333.
To the gairnaris man for sum chirries 1664 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 30.
The petitioune given in be the gairners 1671 Ib. 151.
The visitour of gairneris(f) 1610 Bk. Univ. Kirk III. 1101.
The minister is compelled to await for the same from … his chamberlain, or his garner 1660 Lamont Diary 128.
The garners man … demanded of the kitchen boy a dishe of broothe 1696 Foulis Acc. Bk. 193.
To the garners lads caried in the grass and lifted the boulls