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hop garden en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (UK) A field, fields or farm where hops are grown.
   • On leaving Wye, we find the country changing character; the Downs come closer to the line, and grazing gives way to orchards and hop-gardens, with pleasant farm buildings, including oasthouses, another characteristic Kentish sight. 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
   • The line is now well into the Wealden hills. Running along the Teise valley, the slopes of which are covered in hop gardens, it falls at gradients of 1 in 106 and 213 to Goudhurst, 6⅜ miles out, [...]. 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:

Forms

Relateds

hops · hopping · oast

Synonyms

hopyard

Translations (7)

fi humalaviljelmä (hop garden) · fi humalisto (hop garden) · sv humlegård (hop garden) · de Hopfengarten (hop garden) · pl chmielarnia (hop garden) · ru хме́льник (hop garden) · fi humalatarha (hop garden)