An alternate or dialectal present participle form of 'garden,' indicating the ongoing activity of cultivating or working in a garden.
Variant form of the '-ing' present participle, possibly reflecting dialectal or regional pronunciation patterns where '-ing' might be rendered as '-in.' This represents natural speech variation in English.
The '-in' ending for '-ing' is called 'g-dropping,' and it's not lazy speech—it's historically accurate! Chaucer and Shakespeare both wrote 'in' for '-ing,' and it's still standard in many English dialects today.
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