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Definition of Checkerberries
1. checkerberry [n] - See also: checkerberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkerberries
Literary usage of Checkerberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1912)
"checkerberries. Do you know those. (I am not sure. ... I never heard of pigeon
or checkerberries so that there could have been none there under those names. ..."
2. A History of the Town of Keene from 1732: When the Township was Granted by by Simon Goodell Griffin, Frank H. Whitcomb, Jr Octavius Applegate (1904)
"Arriving on the land Mr. Faulkner looked it over and said: "Why, Mr. Colony, this
is very poor land. It doesn't bear anything but checkerberries. ..."
3. American Primary Teacher. (1897)
"Numbers should be learned in connection with things that they prize, and not
with "shoe pegs" or "toothpicks/"' Berries, checkerberries, animal crackers, ..."
4. School Composition: For Use in Higher Grammar Classes by William Henry Maxwell, Emma Louisa Johnston (1902)
"If the readers knew nothing of checkerberries, would the comparison in the last
sentence of the first paragraph be helpful ? If they knew nothing of orchids ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"There are checkerberries on the outskirts of the wood, where the partridge (he
is a ruffed grouse really) dines, and by the deserted logging-roads ..."
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