Lexic.us

Definition of Picnic ground

1. Noun. A tract of land set aside for picnicking.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picnic Ground

Literary usage of Picnic ground

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"... The picnic ground was just outside the town, on a pretty bit of lawn shaded by grand old bread-fruit and cocoanut trees, and in the midst of a grove of ..."

2. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1907)
"... was some distance from the picnic ground, and, even assuming that the company knew of a large crowd being on the railroad line at the picnic ground, ..."

3. Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Pleasure Driveway and Park by Springfield (Ill.). Pleasure Driveway and Park District. Board of Trustees (1902)
"Page with entrances at the southeast and northeast corners and a cross road from east to west through the timber, which will be used as a picnic ground. ..."

4. Report by Pennsylvania Dept. of Health, Panama Canal (Panama), Health Dept (1918)
"picnic ground and Amusement Park, Waynesboro, Franklin County. United Brethren Camp Meeting ... McDonald's Grove, picnic ground. ..."

5. One Act Plays by Alice Brown (1921)
"Place: An open sward with neighboring trees, used for a picnic ground. A long picnic table of rough boards on trestles, C. The women, all save Cynthia and ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"... obtained an injunction restraining the defendants from occupying and using their premises adjoining the lake as a public picnic ground and pleasure ..."

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